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Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 3): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the BioSense Implementation
Content Type: Webinar
This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Presenters Taha Kass-Hout, MD, MS, Centers for… read more… Ethnicity, Gender • Extended data elements • Increased guidance • Business rules • Transmission and updating … -
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 … -
BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Using Surveillance to Prepare and Respond to Winter Weather: Extreme Cold, Ice, and Snow
Content Type: Webinar
For much of the United States, 2014 began with extreme cold and large snowstorms. As a result, surveillance practitioners around the country have been working to identify, gather, and analyze cold weather-related data. This presentation will focus… read more… sector outreach Discipline-‐specific Guidance https://biosen.se Public Health Surveillance … -
Usage of Syndromic Surveillance Information to Assist Clinical Decision-Making
Content Type: Webinar
Speakers will be practicing clinician-researchers discussing needs for and ongoing usage of recent, local epidemiological information for decision support. Presenters Andrea Dugas, MD, Attending Physician… read more… drug events (Hinrichsen et al JAMIA 2007) • Treatment guidance • Appropriate antibiotic use in acute respiratory … -
Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System
Content Type: Abstract
When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more… identification software module which we named “Dr. T” (Document Reviewing Tool). The module uses a combination of … -
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 … -
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% … -
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 …