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  • Developing an application ontology for mining clinical reports: the extended syndromic surveillance ontology

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    Ontologies representing knowledge from the public health and surveillance domains currently exist. However, they focus on infectious diseases (infectious disease ontology), reportable diseases (PHSkbFretired) and internet surveillance… read more
    … Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: michaelambroseconway@gmail.com Objective To develop an application ontologyFthe … Conway et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 15 radiology finding). Further, these … Health Threats Journal M Conway et al. 2011, 4:s73 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 16 …
  • EpiSentry: simulation-based threat identification, response management and decision support for outbreaks and pandemics

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    The 2009 H1N1 novel flu pandemic demonstrates how a rapidly spreading, contagious illness can affect the world’s population in multiple ways including health, economics, education, transportation, and national security. Pandemic … read more
    … IS&GS, Lansdale, PA, USA E-mail: david.w.mazeroski@lmco.com Objective Traditional real time surveillance systems … licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 56 outbreaks. It will provide an … Journal DW Mazeroski and T Arthur-Hartranft. 2011, 4:s139 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 57 …
  • Using Twitter to estimate H1N1 influenza activity

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    Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its millions of users to send and read each other’s ‘tweets’, or short messages limited to 140 characters. The service has more than 190 million registered users and… read more
    … by the numbers. O’Reilly Radar, http://radar. oreilly.com/2010/04/twitter-by-the-numbers.html, 14 April 2010 … of Influenza Surveillance in the United States, http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ fluactivity.htm (accessed 15 August … et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 83 …
  • Web-Based Spatio-Temporal Display of NC DETECT Surveillance Data

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    NC DETECT is the Web-based early event detection and timely public health surveillance system in the North Carolina Public Health Information Network. The reporting system also provides broader public health surveillance reports for… read more
    … data trends statewide. REFERENCES [1] NC DETECT. http://www.ncdetect.org . [2] Adobe Flash. http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/. Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Development of an Integrated Surveillance System for Beijing

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    After the SARS outbreak in 2003, Beijing established Fever Clinics in major hospitals for the early detection of potential respiratory disease outbreaks. The data collection in Fever Clinics contains the basic patient information, body temperature,… read more
    … patient information, body temperature, cough, and breath con- dition, as well as a primary diagnosis. Since the symp- … Be- cause of the problems in data processing, the data col- lection has decreased. Since 2004, China’s CDC has … Information: Xiaohui Zhang, Ph.D., xiaohui_zhang@stchome.com Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007;2:127 …
  • The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience

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    In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more
    … and Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinical data (ICD-9-CM diagnoses and CPT procedure codes), and LabCorp test … and Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinical data (ICD-9-CM diagnoses and CPT proce- dure codes), and LabCorp test … and Veterans Affairs (VA) outpatient clinical data (ICD-9-CM diagnoses and CPT procedure codes), and LabCorp test …
  • Role of continuous monitoring on performance of surveillance systems in military populations in resource-limited settings

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    Timeliness of information has a key role in disease reporting, and may be easily impaired by several factors affecting data entry and utilization.1 Regarding data entry, previous studies have shown that monitoring strategies, such as telephone… read more
    … them to complete an on-line anonymous questionnaire (www.surveygizmo.com) to ex- plore other factors affecting performance, such … RA Hora et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 38 Conclusions Despite availability of …
  • The use of Craigslist posts for risk behavior and STI surveillance

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    The rise and associated risks of using the internet to find sexual partners among men who have sex with men (MSM) has been noted by many researchers.1,2 The anonymity and relative ease of finding partners on the internet has facilitated casual… read more
    … Craigslist contains rich behavioral data regarding MSM com- munities and that such information can function as … Fries et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 13 References 1 McFarlane M, Bull SS, … Office of AIDS, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Section. http://www.cdph.ca.gov/data/statistics/pages/ …