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  • LAHVA: Linked Animal-Human Health Visual Analytics

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes our integrated visual analytics framework for analyzing both human emergency room data and veterinary hospital data.
    … Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC) and all general visits to Ban- field the Pet Hospital, veterinary practices (approxi- mately 70,000 visits per week). METHODS LAHVA combines both human and …
  • Comparison of Automated Geocoding Methods in a Distributed Multi-County Disease Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The University of Washington's Center for Public Health Informatics, in collaboration with the Kitsap County Health District and the UW Clinical Informatics Research Group, has developed the Peninsula Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection… read more
    … c Kitsap County Health District, Bremerton, WA. Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period ABSTRACT This paper … The UW’s Perl-based system successfully Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period coded 63 out of 76 records …
  • 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
    … and related issues. Please send all correspondence via email or phone using the contact information listed at the … for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Rd. Mail stop E-91 Atlanta, GA 30333 USA Size of Company 251-500 …
  • Experience with Clinician-Based Syndromic Surveillance in West Texas

    Content Type: Abstract

    Classical disease monitoring in local public health jurisdictions has been based on a list of “notifiable diseases”, more or less consistent from state-to-state.  While laboratories’ compliance with this requirement is, in general, excellent,… read more
    … June 25, 2006). Further Information: Tigi Ward: TWard@mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us or Connie Lindley: … mailto:TWard@mail.ci.lubbock.tx.us Experience with Clinician-based …
  • Use of a public health working group to coordinate multi-jurisdiction response to bioterrorism surveillance signals and influenza outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of syndromic surveillance systems to detect illness and outbreaks in the mid 1990s in New York City resulted in recommendations for increased use of these systems for detection of bioterrorist agents, and tracking influenza… read more
    … Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT, USA E-mail: alan.siniscalchi@ct.gov Objective The rapid and … These include the regional response to the 2001 anthrax mail attacks (Amerithrax),3 the identification of …
  • Clinical Surveillance Markers of Influenza-like Illness (ILI) at a Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospital

    Content Type: Abstract

    Emerging infections, both natural and intentional, have provided an impetus for improved disease surveillance and response. The recognition of the interdependence of health care systems and public health infrastructure provides… read more
    … imaging tests and spe- cialty consult requests. All visits at the Durham VAMC ED and acute care facility were … and 250 respira- tory ICD-9 only. Of these 1000 patient visits, 570 (57%) met the case definition of ILI. 690 (69%) …
  • The Performance of Sub-Syndrome Chief Complaint Classifiers for the GI and RESP Syndromes

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention BioSense has developed chief complaint (CC) and ICD9 sub syndrome classifiers for the major syndromes for early event detection and situational awareness. The prevalence of these sub… read more
    … of a CC classifier. Methods: A retrospective study of ED visits at four New York State hospitals from May 1, 2005 to … was performed. These hospitals have annual volumes of ED visits from 24,000 to 33,000 and have electronic medical …
  • BioSense Platform: Introduction to SAS Studio Basics

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented December 4, 2018. The Webinar, Introduction of SAS Studio Basics to the BioSense Platform, will include overviews, summaries, tips, tricks, and examples across a number of SAS topics on the BioSense Platform. Some of these topics will… read more
    … administrator must check the box to initiate notification email  User will be notified via email once access to SAS Studio is complete NSSP plans to …