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  • Preliminary Findings from the BioSense Evaluation Project

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    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
    … surveillance resources in public health practice. Document … 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
    … Health Informatics course at the University of Utah. Document … informatics projects and systems. Each module contains a guidance file, one or more voice- over-power-point lectures, …
  • 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 …
  • 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. …
  • Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow

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    When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more
    … at Salt Lake Valley health department in 2009 and 2010. Document … the health department, we used a data collection form to document whether certain core data elements such as ‘patient …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … Distribute project ILI syndrome standardization pilot. Document … ILI-s concepts and coding as closely as possible, and to document and share local ILI-narrow and ILI-broad code …
  • Dengue hemorrhagic fever One Health Surveillance approach effectiveness in Saudi Arabia

    Content Type: Case Study

    Dengue hemorraghic fever (DHF) is affecting more than 50 million people globally and still remains a persistent public health challenge in Saudi Arabia [1]. Althougth there has been available financial resource, limitations and deficiencies in… read more
    … community partnerships is vital in providing technical guidance and expertise - Need for evidence-based knowledge …
  • Identifying water contamination from syndromic surveillance signals

    Content Type: Abstract

    The EPA Water Security initiative contamination warning system detection strategy involves the use of multiple monitoring and surveillance components for timely detection of drinking water contamination in the distribution system… read more
    … as a cause for a syndromic surveillance alarm. Document … Reference 1 US EPA. Water Security Initiative: Interim Guidance on Developing an Operational Strategy for …