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  • Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks

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    HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more
    … means extending prior knowledge encoded in a gazetteer. Document … C. 1994. Gipsy: Automated geographic indexing of text documents. Journal of the American Society for Information …
  • Automatically tracking diabetes using information in physicians’ notes

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    Patient consultations recorded as voice dictations are frequently stored electronically as transcriptions in free text format. The information stored in free text is not computer tractable. Advances in artificial intelligence permit the… read more
    … and stores it in a structured format in a MYSQL database. Document … solutions developed for this project can be applied to documents from other institutions and to other diseases. It …
  • Using AFDL Algorithm to Estimate Risk of Positive Outcomes of Microbial Tests at Food Establishments

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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 …
  • Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System

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    Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more
    … which can be used to develop future system enhancements.  Document … on system usage patterns during simulated exercises and documenta- tion of investigation practices observed during …
  • Health IT meaningful use: how the EHR certification may improve the electronic laboratory reporting (ELR)

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    The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) brought significant incentives to providers for implementing certified EHR technologies. It specifically requires utilization of certified electronic health records (EHRs) for electronic exchange of… read more
    … electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) capacities. Document … of health. We analyzed ELR messaging require- ments using documents that were published through official HL7 and CDC …
  • International System for Total Early Disease Detection (InSTEDD) Platform

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    This paper describes a hybrid (event-based and indicator-based) surveillance platform designed to streamline the collaboration between domain experts and machine learning algorithms for detection, prediction and response to health-related events (… read more
    … to health-related events (such as disease outbreaks). Document … (SMS messages, RSS feeds, email list (e.g., ProMed), documents, web pages, electronic medical records, animal …
  • Standard Operation Procedures for Three Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Washoe County, Nevada - A Local Perspective

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    Washoe County District Health Department (WCDHD) is a local health district serving nearly 400,000 residents in Washoe County including cities of Reno and Sparks, the second largest urban area in Nevada. To enhance overall public health surveillance… read more
    … existing syndromic surveillance systems in WCDHD, Nevada. Document … is performed by the same staff who monitors signal(s) and documents in a spreadsheet. Staff reports signals to the …
  • T-Cube as an Enabling Technology in Surveillance Applications

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    T-Cube is especially useful for rapidly retrieving responses to ad-hoc queries against large datasets of additive time series labeled using a set of categorical attributes. It can be used as a general tool to support any task… read more
    … as many kinds of complex automated analyses feasible. 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 …