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  • First report on MRSA recovered from wild boars in the north of Portugal

    Content Type: Case Study

    Antibiotic resistance is an emerging public health concern and the scientific community recognizes the need to evaluate its epidemiology. Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) are a key to this problem. Often found in the natural flora of the skin, nose and… read more
    … STUDY ___ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration __ Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies …
  • Introduction to Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented December 8, 2015 Dr. Richard S. Hopkins presented the following slides as part of the ISDS Intro to BioSurveillance Workshop at the 2015 ISDS Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. This presentation demonstrates… read more
    … persons Evaluation and management of exposed people Training for doctors in the community Public education …
  • Towards Integrated Syndromic Surveillance in Europe?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Triple - S is a project co-financed by the European commission through the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers. THe project encompasses an inventory of existing and proposed syndromic surveillance systems in Europe, including country visits… read more
    … Those considering and developing systems require training in syndromic data sources A framework rather than …
  • Mining Intensive Care Vitals for Leading Indicators of Adverse Health Events

    Content Type: Abstract

    The status of each Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patient is routinely monitored and a number of vital signs are recorded at sub-second frequencies which results in large amounts of data. We propose an approach to transform this stream of raw vital… read more
    … each type of these automatically extracted events using training data, which contain actual health alerts, in …
  • Web Search Query Data to Monitor Dengue Epidemics: a New Model for Dengue Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    With an estimated 500 million people infected each year, dengue ranks as one of the most significant mosquito-borne viral human diseases, and one of the most rapidly emerging vectorborne diseases. A variety of obstacles including bureaucracy and… read more
    … prior to model fitting. The final models, fit using a training subset of the data, were cross-validated against …
  • Electronic Tracking of Influenza-like Illness Incidence in an Outpatient Population

    Content Type: Abstract

    Using an electronic health record (EHR) system, we tracked an outpatient population from a series of primary care providers to identify influenza-like illness (ILI) as part of a multi-state effort directed by the Centers for Disease Control and… read more
    … denomi- nator along with the number of ILI cases. Proper training and selecting the right practice played a large …
  • FITS - Flu Immunization Tracking System: Capturing County Level Data to Inform Public Health Practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    Historically, it has been the role of local health departments to administer, monitor, and report flu vaccinations of its residents to the state health department. In 2009, the looming threat of an influenza outbreak (H1N1) led to the extension of… read more
    … health professionals were invited to a system users training to orient them with the system, record management …
  • Linking Informatics and Cross-Programmatic Public Health Strategic Objectives

    Content Type: Abstract

    There is national recognition of the need for cross-programmatic data and system coordination and integration for surveillance, prevention, response, and control implementation. To accomplish this public health must develop an informatics competency… read more
    … a common informatics lexicon and workforce engagement and training are critical to public health, especially for …