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  • Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project

    Content Type: Abstract

    In October 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funded four institutions, including Emory University, to conduct evaluations of the BioSense surveillance system. These evaluations include investigations of situations… read more
    … by the Emory University team. METHODS With general guidance from CDC and in collabora- tion with the other …
  • Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more
    … informatics projects and systems. Each module contains a guidance file, one or more voice- over-power-point lectures, …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … Scientist, CDC Max Worlund,  ICF Lindsay Brown,  Deloitte Document Biosense_Platform_Dataflow_Part3_Slides.pdf … DEVELOPMENT ü  Create baseline Master Facility Tables ü  Document new data flow ü  Document ESSENCE seLngs ü  Document legacy data flow ü  …
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis – Surveillance updates and CDC activities, 2018

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented December 20, 2018. The presentation will provide a summary of the epidemiology of AFM during the increase in cases in 2018 and updates on CDC’s AFM activities. Presenters Adriana Lopez, MHS,… read more
    … Department of Health and Environment (Sourced from NCIRD guidance) … significantly § Multiple age cutoffs were tried. NCIRD guidance suggests 18 years as the best cutoff. CCDD Category …
  • Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019.  Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more
    … for large variance in text entries and coding ▪ National guidance – National definition will provide a good starting place – Guidance to encourage common conceptual definition (e.g., no …
  • Emergency Syndromic Surveillance: Adapting Real-Time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) for Public Health in Canada

    Content Type: Abstract

    In September 2004, Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Public Health began a 2-year pilot project to develop and evaluate an Emergency Department Chief Complaint Syndromic Surveillance System in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry… read more
    … Canadian syndromic surveillance systems of the future. Document … interface. A technical overview paper has been written to document the extensive alterations that have been included …
  • Finding medically unexplained symptoms within VA clinical documents using v3NLP

    Content Type: Abstract

    Pro-WATCH (protecting war fighters using algorithms for text processing to capture health events), a syndromic surveillance project for veterans of operation enduring freedom (OEF)/operation Iraqi freedom (OIF), includes a task to identify medically… read more
    … currently in development to find duration assertions. Document … the parts of speech and words around medical concepts, document type and section headings. For this Pro-WATCH task, …
  • Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more
    … event detection and timely public health surveillance. Document … in the new system allowing authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …