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  • Multivariate Count Time Series Modeling of Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Webinar

    Surveillance data on various notifiable diseases usually consist of multiple time series of daily, weekly, or monthly counts of new infections. Data are typically reported in several strata defined through administrative geographical areas, gender… read more
    … Stockholm University, Sweden Webpage:  http://www.math.su.se/~hoehle Michael Höhle works (part-time) as an …  statistics.       For  more  information  about  ISDS:   www.syndromic.org   info@syndromic.org   617-­‐779-­‐0880   … Neutral/Undecided   Strongly  Disagree/ Disagree   http://www.syndromic.org mailto:info@syndromic.org OLE_LINK2 …
  • Qatar experience on MERS-CoV One Health Surveillance and Response, 2012 - 2015

    Content Type: Case Study

    The emergence of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in 2012 had placed a great concern on the public health institutions globally and in particular in the Arab region. The gaps in knowledge related to the novel virus put… read more
    … the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in 2012 had placed a great concern on the public health … Case Study CASE STUDY TITLE Qatar experience on MERS-CoV One Health Surveillance and Response, 2012-2015 … the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in 2012 had placed a great concern on the public health …
  • Exploring Chief Complaint Word Co-occurence Visualizations

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented October 28, 2016. We are going to briefly explore the tidytext, widyr, and flexdashboard packages to analyze word co-occurrence, look at ngrams, and then visualize the results in word network graphs. Looking at your data in this way can… read more
    … widyr, and flexdashboard packages to analyze word co-occurrence, look at ngrams, and then visualize the … widyr, and flexdashboard packages to analyze word co-occurrence, look at ngrams, and then visualize the … Exploring Chief Complaint Word Co-occurence Visualizations …
  • Project Tycho, Data for Health: Open Access to Newly Digitized U.S. Weekly Nationally Notifiable Disease Surveillance Data from 1888-Present

    Content Type: Webinar

    Background: Public health agencies in the United States such as the Public Health Service before 1950 and the Centers for Disease Control after 1950 have published nationally notifiable disease reports for cities and states… read more
    … data can be freely accessed and used for any purpose on  www.tycho.pitt.edu  after registration and agreement to a … 72-148) Total 2000-2010: 26 million (P10-90: 18-37) www.tycho.pitt.edu (open access) Data redistribution http://www.tycho.pitt.edu/ Demo www.tycho.pitt.edu …
  • Surveillance for nationally notifiable infectious conditions using ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in the VA ESSENCE biosurveillance system

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) obtains electronic data from 153 Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers plus outpatient clinics in all 50 states, American Samoa, Guam,… read more
    … analysis, we examined positive predictive value of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in VA ESSENCE to determine the utility of … in VA.   Objective To determine the utility of ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in the VA ESSENCE for detection and … nationally notifiable infectious conditions using ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in the VA ESSENCE biosurveillance system …
  • Experts Collaborate to Develop a Standardized Syndrome Definition for Cold-related Illness

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In winter, people are at risk for cold-related illness (CRI) such as hypothermia. Deaths coded as weather-related from 2006 through 2010 showed exposure to excessive cold as the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.1… read more
    … Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP–CoP) worked with the Council of State and Territorial … with data analysts and epidemiologists from the NSSP–CoP Syndrome Definition Committee and based its approach on … Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP–CoP) worked with the Council of State and Territorial …
  • School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Guoyan Zhang and Anthony Llau, Miami-Dade County Health Department, have been instrumental in developing the School-Based Absentee Surveillance System (SBASS), which uses school absentee data to identify outbreaks as part of syndromic surveillance.… read more
    … the friendship network data as complete (n=1074). http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth Carolina Population … guidelines for clinicians [cited 2010 Jul 22]. http://www.myflusafety.com/SwineFlu/documents/RevisedH1N1 … School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers? …
  • MapIT - Introduction to Mapping Tool 2015

    Content Type: Webinar

    Many public health programs use hospital administrative and claims data for assessment and surveillance purposes. They are preparing their data collection processes to make the transition from accepting data coded with ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM in… read more
    … make the transition from accepting data coded with ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM in preparation for the October 1 implementation date set … of the updated mapping tool.  Presenters Ginger Cox , RHIT, CCS, ICD-9/10 Coding and Conversion Analyst, … make the transition from accepting data coded with ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM in preparation for the October 1 …