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Influenza mortality surveillance using a statewide electronic death registration system F Nebraska, 2009–2010
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Public health surveillance using death data is critical for tracking the impact of diseases such as influenza. However, utility of such systems is compromised by delayed reporting, particularly when it is paper based. In Nebraska, funeral directors… read more… Office of Public Health Preparedness, Atlanta, GA, USA E-mail: bryan.buss@nebraska.gov Objective This report … -
Collaborative development of use cases for geospatially enabling a health information exchange
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Given the clear relationship between spatial contexts and health, the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (ICEPHI) aims to serve both the needs of public health researchers and practitioners by… read more… School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA E-mail: kfrederi@iupui.edu Objective This presentation … -
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center (VA IOC): collaborations for surveillance, analysis, and prediction for infectious disease threat preparedness—pilot review of dengue occurrence
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Under leadership of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness has established the Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center, with the goal of enhancing integration and analysis of data, and… read more… Administration (NOAA), Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: katherine.wallace@va.gov Objective The objective of … -
The United States Department of Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center (VA IOC): collaborations for surveillance, analysis, and prediction for infectious disease threat preparedness—pilot review of dengue occurrence
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Under leadership of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security and Preparedness has established the Veterans Affairs Integrated Operations Center, with the goal of enhancing integration and analysis of data, and… read more… Administration (NOAA), Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: katherine.wallace@va.gov Objective The objective of … -
Population-based surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections among high school football and wrestling participants—Nebraska, 2008–2010
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MRSA, which had been known primarily as a cause of healthcare-associated infections, increasingly has been recognized as a cause of skin infections among persons of all ages who have little or no contact with healthcare settings. Such infections are… read more… Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA E-mail: bryan.buss@nebraska.gov Objectives The Nebraska … -
Monitoring Twitter content related to Influenza-like-Illness in Spanish-speaking populations
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Influenza is a recurrent viral disease with potential to result in pandemics. Therefore it is necessary to have a timely, responsive and accurate detection. The use of Twitter as a source for data mining in biosurveillance has been previously shown… read more… *Arturo López-Pineda E-mail: arl68@pitt.edu (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data
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Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more… records; visuali- zation; diabetes *Michael Klompas E-mail: mklompas@partners.org (page number not for citation … -
Cloud Computing for Syndromic Surveillance
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Two significant barriers to greater use of syndromic surveillance techniques are computational time and software complexity. Computational time refers to the time for many methods (for example, scan statistics and AMOEBA statistics) to create… read more… Stat Theor Meth. 1997;26:1481�96. *Frank Hardisty E-mail: hardisty@psu.edu (page number not for citation …