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  • 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
    … 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 …
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    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, …
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    One of the first county-wide syndromic surveillance systems in the nation, the Syndromic Tracking and Reporting System (STARS) has been in operation since 11/01/2001, and now covers Hillsborough, Pinellas and Collier counties.… read more
    … methods, and aberration investigation. Document … efficiency, characteristics of aberration detection, and guidance procedure for aberration investigation. Syndrome …
  • Content Type: Report

    A Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop was held in Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 4 on May 12-13, 2015 at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, GA. This was the seventh workshop in a… read more
    … in identifying their learning needs and methods with guidance by a facilitator. Using a limited emergency … condition of interest. Participants then identify and document their perceived benefits and barriers to SyS data …
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    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 …
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    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. …
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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 …
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    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 …