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Full Automatic Syndromic Surveillance System Using Prescription in Japan
Content Type: Abstract
I Medical services for outpatients are well developed due to universal public health insurance. Even patients who have mild symptoms can visit a clinic freely in Japan. Thus the monitoring of outpatients provides very timely information to detect… read more… Institute of Infectious Diseases, 2) EM SYSTEMS Co.Ltd OBJECTIVE So that full automatic syndromic … Disease and EM SYSTEMS Co.Ltd. which is the leading com- pany of the systems for pharmacies and, especially, … -
Georgia's Choice: Moving One Health Forward
Content Type: Case Study
Anthrax is endemic and enzootic in Georgia with cases being registered since 1881 with over 2000 foci identified. Since 2005, 439 laboratory confirmed and 211 probable human cases and 190 laboratory confirmed animal cases have been registered. A… read more… Agriculture (LMA) COUNTRY: Georgia Email: irinekal7@yahoo.com, tsira.napetvaridze@gmail.com, makakokhreidze@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU WORK IN? _x__ Human health ___x … -
Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System
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Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more… in the fu- ture. The functionality of this communication com- ponent must balance the utility of immediate situ- … can view the communications logs to better understand and com- pare which detection alarms were met with concern … -
Partnering for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness: the Georgia Syndromic Surveillance Program and the Georgia Power Company
Content Type: Abstract
The Georgia Power Corporation (GPC) provides power to 155 (97.5%) of the 159 counties in Georgia (GA), and employs 9,600 people throughout the state. GPC is engaged in preparing for pandemic influenza, and committed to protecting… read more… a large corporation with a statewide employee base to con- duct absentee and reason for absence SS to provide an … for organizing pandemic planning committees comprised of com- munity partners to discuss continuity of basic ser- … -
Benchmarking Temporal Surveillance Techniques
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Benchmarking of temporal surveillance techniques is a critical step in the development of an effective syndromic surveillance system. Unfortunately, holding “bakeoffs” to blindly compare approaches is a difficult and often fruitless enterprise, in… read more… we dem- onstrate an approach for this process based on a com- mon analytical development and benchmarking with common … [1] Reis BY, Pagano M, Mandl KD, Using temporal con- text to improve surveillance, PNAS. 2003;100(4):1961- … -
Framework for the Development of Response Protocols for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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Although syndromic surveillance cannot serve its intended purpose without the timely public health response launched after aberration detection, the literature is very limited with respect to response to syndromic surveillance… read more… based on ex- perience with a single system, ESSENCE, and con- cluded that careful development of an evaluation and … experi- ences with multiple systems, it can be used as a com- mon resource for public health practitioners develop- … -
Respiratory Syndrome in the Netherlands in Relation to Pathogen Activity
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Syndromic surveillance may be suited for detection of emerging respiratory disease elevations that could pass undiagnosed. The syndromes under surveillance should then retrospectively reflect known respiratory pathogen activity. To validate this for… read more… two respi- ratory syndromes by the seasonal dynamics of com- mon respiratory pathogens. BACKGROUND Syndromic … was used, by selecting those lags and pathogens that con- tributed most to the model fit (assessed with Akaike’s … -
Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more… March 1, 2019 - 12:00 7 views Document Tong_Dearth_CoP Advancing the Practice of … To start… 2 min Cat Ask the audience! Who knows what a CoP is? 2 Agenda Overview of the Community of Practice … Source: NSSP Community of Practice Charter located on www.healthsurveillance.org/NSSPCOP under “Mission, Vision, …