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  • Integrating Medical Examiner Data in Utah

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Office of the Medical Examiner (OME) is a statewide system for investigation of sudden and unexpected death in Utah. OME, in the Utah Department of Health (UDOH), certified over 2000 of the 13,920 deaths in Utah in 2008. Information from OME… read more
    … Grey Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: jduncan@utah.gov Objectives The objectives of the Utah …
  • Mitigating data collection challenges with adaptive frameworks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collection of data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little meaning. Many… read more
    … Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: adjoa.poku@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper describes …
  • Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade

    Content Type: Abstract

    From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more
    … County Health Department (MDCHD), Miami, FL, USA E-mail: Rene_Borroto-Ponce@doh.state.fl.us Objective To …
  • Tracking H1N1 vaccine doses administered using CRA system

    Content Type: Abstract

    The novel strain of H1N1 Influenza A virus, which first caused localized outbreaks in parts of Mexico, was declared a pandemic in June 2009. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Countermeasure and Response… read more
    … Contractor from McKing Consulting, Fairfax, VA, USA E-mail: ssapkota@cdc.gov Objective The objective of this paper …
  • User requirements for a user-centered design (UCD) redesign of a public health surveillance system: BioSense

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) launched the BioSense program in 2003 to establish an integrated system of nationwide public health surveillance for the early detection and assessment of potential bioterrorism-related… read more
    … RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA E-mail: rsembajwe@rti.org Objective The objective of this …
  • Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course

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    Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more
    … CJ Staes University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: yuling.jiang@utah.edu Objective This poster describes …
  • A spatio-temporal absorbing state model for disease and syndromic surveillance

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    The goal of disease and syndromic surveillance is to monitor and detect aberrations in disease prevalence across space and time. Disease surveillance typically refers to the monitoring of confirmed cases of disease, whereas syndromic… read more
    … Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA E-mail: matt@stat.duke.edu Objective Syndromic surveillance …
  • Implementation of a New Syndromic Surveillance System in April 2006 in French Guiana

    Content Type: Abstract

    An outbreak of dengue fever has occured in French Guiana since the end of November 2005 until July 2006. The dengue serotype circulating was DEN-2, responsible of more than 2 000 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. The previous… read more
    … physicians involved and weekly collected by telephone, mail or fax in the cen- ter of control in Cayenne. Those …