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  • Utilizing a Patient Tracking System for Public Health Emergencies

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2003, the need for a system to track and manage patient status and location was identified by Boston Emergency Medical Services (Boston EMS) and the Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals. After consultation with EMS (… read more
    … information needs during public health emergencies. Document … was facilitated by the parameters set in the PHIN document. Stakeholders worked closely with system developers …
  • Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more
    … Katrina evacuees’ hospital visits in North Carolina. Document … results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report …
  • Respiratory Syndrome in the Netherlands in Relation to Pathogen Activity

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … by the seasonal dynamics of common respiratory pathogens. Document … data using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance. Time series of respiratory pathogens (Respiratory …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Regional Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 5

    Content Type: Report

    Thirteen surveillance professionals from seven state and local public health agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Region 5 planned and participated in the 2-day Workshop. The participants selected data sharing… read more
    … – Participants worked with the Workshop facilitator to document the benefits, barriers, and solutions to sharing … practices, and public health business practices. • Document and describe Workshop outputs related to syndromic …
  • Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information

    Content Type: Abstract

    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more
    … efficiency of sharing syndromic information statewide. Document … reports in NC DETECT allow epidemi- ologists to document the follow-up conducted on syndrome-based … as laboratory data. New interfaces will allow users to document lab results about respiratory illnesses, in- …
  • All Traffic Related v2 - Washington State Department of Health, 2019

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Objective: This is an updated to the All Traffic-related submitted in 2018. The goal is to capture all traffic-related injuries presenting for healthcare, regardless of intent or vehicle type, to allow monitoring of long-term trends… read more
    …  and https://www.doh.wa.gov/portals/1/Documents/2900/ICD-9_Codes.pdf . This update includes … State Department of Health natasha.close@doh.wa.gov Document AllTrafficRelatedv2.txt Submitted by Anonymous on …  and https://www.doh.wa.gov/portals/1/Documents/2900/ICD-9_Codes.pdf . This update includes …
  • Surveillance System Evaluations Provide Evidence to Improve Public Health Practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    A simplified syndromic surveillance system, based on early detection and reporting of four core syndromes and immediate reporting of unusual events, was established across PICTs in 2010. An early evaluation of the system was undertaken to make… read more
    … to improve public health practice. This presentation documents how knowledge gathered through a syndromic … to improve public health practice. This presentation documents how knowledge gathered through a syndromic …
  • Automatic Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) New Monitoring and Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most devastating diseases of farm animals. There is a critical need for countries to have a global FMD situational awareness. Monitoring the online news sources for FMD-related news… read more
    … at the University of Arizona and the FMD Lab at UC Davis. Document … medical domain. Pant created a topical spider to get a document collection which can help to locate relevant … filters out the FMD news from the large collection of documents retrieved by our spiders. Then the news articles …