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Automated Syndromic Surveillance System in Los Angeles County
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The Los Angeles County (LAC) Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Unit has made significant progress in automating the syndromic surveillance system. The surveillance system receives electronic data on a daily basis from different hospital… read more… Private Network (VPN) and text file via secure FTP and e-mail. A password-protected secure web server has been … countywide coverage is approximately 30% of total ED visits. The system automatically runs once per day, … to detect disease clusters and outbreaks. Use of e-mail as a data transport tool is less reliable and secure … -
Evaluation of the Connecticut Hospital Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring of Community Gastrointestinal Illness
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The HEDSS system was implemented in 2004 to monitor disease activity [1]. Twenty of 32 emergency departments (ED) and 1 urgent care clinic provide data. Chief complaints are routinely categorized into 8 syndromes. Although previous studies have… read more… reportable events. Weekly percentage of HEDSS GI syndrome visits (combined GI, vomiting, diarrhea and bloody diarrhea) … diseases using correlation coefficients. GI syndrome ED visits were also examined by geographical region and age. … vomiting has a greater magnitude than diarrhea. ED GI visits were correlated with GI hospital admissions (r�0.73, … -
Surveillance for nationally notifiable infectious conditions using ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes in the VA ESSENCE biosurveillance system
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The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) obtains electronic data from 153 Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers plus outpatient clinics in all 50 states, American Samoa, Guam,… read more… Health Surveillance and Research, Palo Alto, CA, USA E-mail: cynthia.lucero@va.gov Objective To determine the … graphic data from outpatient and emergency department visits at all VA facilities.1 For this review, visits with an ICD-9-CM code(s) for a reportable … -
Evaluating the use of syndromic surveillance for the detection of influenza-like illness in Salt Lake County, Utah
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Salt Lake Valley Health Department uses syndromic surveillance to monitor influenza-like illness (ILI) activity as part of a comprehensive influenza surveillance program that includes pathogen-specific surveillance, sentinel… read more… Lake Valley Health Department, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: jrobertson@slco.org Objective The objective of this … X100.41F, cough and/or sore throat, and total patient visits were summed from 12 sentinel sites, and used to … Reporting System (EARS).4 Daily ILI and total patient visits were used to calculate weekly percentages of … -
Analytic Decision Support for Public Health Emergencies
Content Type: Webinar
Public health emergencies require planning and response activities. These activities require analytical frameworks for considering the complicated and at times non-linear risk factors and interactions within particular scenarios whether they be… read more… Number of People ISDS Sent Announcement via E-‐mail 2091 Opened Announcement 614 (29.7%) Clicked Link in Announcement Email (N= 614) 128 (20.8%) Registered for webinar … -
Virtual Speed Networking with the Analytic Solutions Committee (ASC)
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Presented January 11, 2018. The purpose of the event was to stimulate and facilitate constructive communication and collaboration among analytic method developers and practitioners charged with routine public health surveillance, ranging from… read more… Methods: natural language processing, machine learning Email: al.park@Utah.edu My background is in My research is … Pattern Detection Laboratory Carnegie Mellon University E-mail: neill@cs.cmu.edu Visiting Professor of Urban Analytics New York University E-mail: daniel.neill@nyu.edu Personal Website: … -
Spatial cluster detection in schools using school catchment information
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The H1N1 outbreak in the spring of 2009 in NYC originated in a school in Queens before spreading to others nearby. Active surveillance established epidemiological links between students at the school and new cases at other schools through… read more… of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, NY, USA E-mail: sday@health.nyc.gov Objective To improve cluster … percentage of enrollment and total influenza-like illness visits. For each day, the observed values were compared with … schools have increased absenteeism or school nurse visits. The analysis has a couple of limitations: (1) a … -
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… ▫ Patient management ▫ Crowding / increased patient visits Surveillance with Google Flu Trends Why the Emergency … Tableau® Web & Mobile Apps GermWatch e-mail list! • Weekly e-mails to 400+ Clinicians, … of information exchange • Health Alert Network • Fax • Email/Web • Literature • Mass media • Primary Limitation …