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  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Sharing Workgroup - Report

    Content Type: Report

    This report summarizes a series of Data Sharing Workgroups that occurred in 2014 and 2015. Purpose of the workgroups: To provide community input on topics related to data sharing functionalities in the BioSense platform. Summary of work: The… read more
    … Sharing Functionality in BioSense 2.0 January 2015 This document is intended for sharing with the BioSense … expanded data sharing agreements but feels that without guidance from the Governance Group on the above issues, this …
  • TN Onboarding Presentation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides summarize the process in Tennessee for onboarding hospitals' syndromic surveillance data into BioSense.
    … View the slides here Friday, May 1, 2015 - 12:00 2 views Document …  Health  objec5ves  for  Meaningful  Use   On-­‐Boarding  Guidance   Documents   •  TDH  Meaningful  Use: … Send  TP  message   correcJons  to  be   corrected       Document  what  errors  have  been   corrected  and  send …
  • CDC Suicide Attempt v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts. The definition can be used to supplement case-finding using… read more
    … outlined in the Syndrome Definition Committee’s (SDC) guidance on developing, evaluating, and disseminating … CDC Suicide Attempt v2 Factsheet & Technical Brief Document szq6@cdc.gov 140 views Submitted by NSSP_KR_Admin … outlined in the Syndrome Definition Committee’s (SDC) guidance on developing, evaluating, and disseminating …
  • Extending an Uncertainty Taxonomy for Suspected Pneumonia Case Review

    Content Type: Abstract

    Natural language processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason about whether these mentions provide evidence that supports, refutes, or represents uncertainty. Our efforts extend… read more
    … processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason … processing algorithms that accurately screen clinical documents for suspected pneumonia must extract and reason …
  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … recommends in their 2016 HRI syndrome query guidance document: … Health Services District Dylan.Kent@pinalcountyaz.gov Document Abstract_2018_01_Enhanced Surveillance of … References 1. Heat-Related Illness Syndrome Query: A Guidance Document For Implementing Heat-Related Illness …
  • A web-based platform to support text mining of clinical reports for public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    PyConTextKit is a web-based platform that extracts entities from clinical text and provides relevant metadata - for example, whether the entity is negated or hypothetical - using simple lexical clues occurring in the window of text surrounding the… read more
    … of clinical reports for public health surveillance. Document … currently supports the following six features: view of documents to be annotated,management of a lexicon, document annotation using the lexicon,view of annotation …
  • Estimated range of Aedes albopictus and Aedes aegypti in the United States, 2017

    Content Type: Report

    CDC has updated the estimated range maps for Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquitoes by using a model that predicts possible geographic ranges for these mosquitoes in the contiguous United States. The model used county-level records, historical… read more
    … dialog.] Summary The checker found no problems in this document. Needs manual check: 0 Passed manually: 2 Failed … title bar Bookmarks Passed Bookmarks are present in large documents Color contrast Passed manually Document has …
  • Using databases and dplyr to work with data in R

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenter April 30, 2018. The ease with which users can interact with databases in R has drastically improved the ease, convenience, and speed with which users can "talk to" larger datasets than it is possible to hold in memory.  Without… read more
    … assets" in an R toolchain - namely RMarkdown documents and Shiny applications. View the webinar slides … assets" in an R toolchain - namely RMarkdown documents and Shiny applications. …