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Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents
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Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more -
Post-disaster Surveillance Following the Tsunami in Japan: BioSense 2011
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The CDC's BioSense Program receives near real-time health care utilization data from a number of sources, including Department of Defense (DoD) healthcare facilities from around the globe and non-federal hospital emergency departments (EDs) in the… read more -
Applications of Syndromic Surveillance in Resource Poor Settings: A Series of Case Studies
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Particularly in resource-poor settings, syndromic surveillance has been proposed as a feasible solution to the challenges in meeting the new disease surveillance requirements included in the World Health Organization's International Health… read more -
Novel Approach to Statewide Biosurveillance Using Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Information
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The purpose of the National Collaborative for Bio-preparedness (NCB-P) is to enhance biosurveillance and situational awareness to better inform decision-making using a statewide approach. EMS represents a unique potential data source because it… read more -
Monitoring Twitter content related to Influenza-like-Illness in Spanish-speaking populations
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Influenza is a recurrent viral disease with potential to result in pandemics. Therefore it is necessary to have a timely, responsive and accurate detection. The use of Twitter as a source for data mining in biosurveillance has been previously shown… read more -
Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance
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In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more -
An Open Source Quality Assurance Tool for HL7 v2 Syndromic Surveillance Messages
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The CMS EHR Incentive Programs include a measure for meaningful use of EHR systems for submitting syndromic surveillance messages to public health. The Stage 2 measure defines the standard for transmission to be HL7 v2.5.1 Admit/Discharge/Transfer… read more -
Fast Graph Structure Learning from Unlabeled Data for Outbreak Detection
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Disease surveillance data often has an underlying network structure (e.g. for outbreaks which spread by person-to-person contact). If the underlying graph structure is known, detection methods such as GraphScan (1) can be used to identify an… read more