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  • Decrease Epidemiological Threats with Environmental Controls and Testing

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    The Decrease Epidemiological Threats with Environmental Controls and Testing (DETECT) program consisted of a four month initiative to provide a two-day in-depth training modified from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Epi-Ready… read more
    … of a four month initiative to provide a two-day in-depth training modified from the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) Epi-Ready training. In each Public Health Area, Central Office … information to county and area Public Health staff. To train and equip field staff in the management of foodborne …
  • Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service

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    Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more
    … Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance …
  • Marketing a Syndromic Surveillance System to Hospital Emergency Departments

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    The Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented a syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. A critical component to developing and growing this statewide system is… read more
    … implemented a syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. A critical component to developing and growing this …
  • Streamlined Development of Analytic Fusion Capability for Health Surveillance

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    The motivation for this project is to provide greater situational awareness to DoD epidemiologists monitoring the health of military personnel and their dependents. An increasing number of data sources of varying clinical specificity and timeliness… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Data sources included clinical encounter records … R packages which provide more comprehensive tools for BN training and development. These results will allow us to improve the analytic fusion abilities of DoD ESSENCE, as well as in civilian surveillance systems Our …
  • MNCH Surveillance-Response Systems Strengthening in Indonesia

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    During 2007 - 2010 the Center for Health service Management (CHSM) conducted training and consultations to strengthen the Maternal, Neonatal & Child Health (MNCH) Surveillance-Response (S-R) Systems of 10 districts and 5 municipalities of 5… read more
    … the Center for Health service Management (CHSM) conducted training and consultations to strengthen the Maternal, … strengthening was carried out by means of two 2-day training sessions (of approximately one year apart) at the … electronic telecommunication. The subject matter of the training sessions courses and consultations consisted of: …
  • Optimizing Performance of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome

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    A number of different methods are currently used to classify patients into syndromic groups based on the patient’s chief complaint (CC). We previously reported results using an “Ngram” text processing program for building classifiers… read more
    … AT&T Labs). The method applies the ICD9 classifier to a training set of ED visits for which both the CC and ICD9 … visits). We used as our ICD9 classifier an existing ESSENCE filter for the respiratory syndrome, RESP. The ICD9 …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system … generate reports that detail which users have logged into ESSENCE, when the log-in occurred, and which pages within …
  • Developing policy to support novel Caribbean Tourism and Health surveillance program

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    In January 2016, the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), serving 24 Member States(MS), began executing a regional Tourism and Health program (THP), recognizing that the health of Caribbean economies is closely related to the health of its… read more
    … visitor/tourism illnesses. This coupled with inadequate training, lack of standards and collaboration between … system (THiS), food safety and environmental sanitation training, standards and multisectoral health and tourism …