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  • Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … illness during the July 2011 Heat Wave in Indianapolis. Document … Plan. http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPS/DHS/Preparedness/ Documents/Appendix%20G-Heat%20Cold%20Plan%202009- …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    The panelists will present their current technical research using Twitter data for disease surveillance. Presentation topics may include filtering and processing of tweets, as well as the analysis and presentation of findings for surveillance… read more
    … Time Thursday, June 28, 2012 Host ISDS Research Committee Document Pnnl_Isds_Tweet4ds.pdf Document Social-Media-Monitoring-Cameron.pdf Document … is a set of terms that typically occur within the same documents and a set of documents from which those terms have …
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    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … of parsing visit notes for syndromic surveillance. Document … and a semantic grammar to parse and encode medical documents. MedLEE creates a finding (e.g., fever) and … L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med …
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    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … component in a system performing real-time surveillance. Document … examining sentences causing the errors in separate text documents. We are building a framework to simplify results … a lexicon-building tool to mine synonyms from clinical documents and the UMLS Metathesaurus. Conclusions …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    Globally, disease surveillance systems suffer from a number of resource constraints. These constraints are more pronounced in developing countries, which bear the greatest burden of disease and where pathogens are more likely to emerge, reemerge,… read more
    … PM IST Host ISDS Research and Global Outreach Committees Document Introduction_To_Seed-_Jenar.pdf Document Vivek-Singh-Updated.pdf …   Introduc*on  to     … (06-07) Information from www.idsp.nic.in //localhost/C/Documents and Settings/Dr. Bachani/Desktop/IDSP/IDSP …
  • Content Type: Success Stories

    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF), a bacterial tick-borne rickettsial illness, initially causes nonspecific symptoms (e.g., fever, rash, nausea, and vomiting).  In 2003, RMSF was identified on tribal lands in Arizona where the brown dog tick… read more
    … result of its use, MCDPH provided potentially life-saving guidance.  In this case, MCDPH epidemiologists identified a … an existing protocol and provided potentially life-saving guidance.  Further, MCDPH implemented a novel method for … Health (602) 372-8414 Jennifer.Collins@maricopa.gov Document RMSF Success Story References.docx Submitted by …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes several interactive data exploration tools for examining surveillance data.
    … data exploration tools for examining surveillance data. Document … /Description << /ENU (Use these settings to create PDF documents with higher image resolution for high quality pre-press printing. The PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Reader 5.0 and …
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    One of the common tasks faced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) food safety analysts is to estimate the risk of observing positive outcomes of microbial tests of food samples collected at the slaughter and food… read more
    … samples collected at the USDA controlled establishments. Document … /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents for quality printing on desktop printers and proofers. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 …