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  • Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) Vendor Analysis

    Content Type: Report

    Public health agencies have to work with a several disparate systems, a lack of robust reporting capabilities, and a lack of standardized surveillance, along with inherent funding challenges. The purpose of this analysis is to help state and local… read more
    … Health Informatics Institute welcomes comments on this document and related issues. Please send all correspondence … meet the needs • Toolkit: Vendor Analysis section of this document Prepare • Conduct a Request for Proposal exercise • … an external system        1.1.93 Allow user to document patient/contact treatment details and diagnostics  …
  • School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Guoyan Zhang and Anthony Llau, Miami-Dade County Health Department, have been instrumental in developing the School-Based Absentee Surveillance System (SBASS), which uses school absentee data to identify outbreaks as part of syndromic surveillance.… read more
    … days, early release days, holidays and other events as a guidance to holidays and other events as a guidance to perform data analysis. Special events such as …
  • Utilization of Syndromic Surveillance with Multiple Data Sources to Enhance Public Health Response

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the event of a large-scale public health crisis, successfully detecting and assessing health threats and monitoring population health status over a sustained period of time is likely to require integration of information from multiple… read more
    … source of information used to provide health protection guidance to the public was air quality data, not human … and Incident Characterization (BWIC) System: General Guidance for BWIC Cities. Richland, WA: Pacifi c Northwest …
  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
    …   Develop%clinical%guidance%   Media%   …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 1- Data Ingestion into the BioSense Platform

    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
    … and Principal Consultant, Ishikawa Associates, LLC Document Biosense_Platform_Dataflow_Part1_Slides.pdf … •  Create baseline Master Facility Tables •  ▶ Document data flow •  Establish data mart •  Develop User …
  • Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more
    … •  Network  structures:    mainly  heuris4c,  based  on  guidance  from   medical  epidemiologist     •  Condi4onal …
  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … published by the CDC (10, 11). It was designed under guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more
    … system to generate and validate BTA profiles. Document … actions during the course of the disaster, as well as document potential areas for future mitigation efforts. … side effects are more difficult to characterize and document. Drugs with a high risk of harm outweighing the …