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Game-Theoretic Surveillance Approaches for Hospital-Associated Infections
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Disease screening facilitates the reduction of disease prevalence in two ways: (1) by preventing transmission and (2) allowing for treatment of infected individuals. Hospitals choosing an optimal screening level must weigh the benefits of decreased… read more… diseases. Math Biosci. 2007;209:386�402. *Aaron Miller E-mail: aaron-miller@uiowa.edu (page number not for citation … -
Science and Technology Enabling Integrative Global Biosurveillance
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Life science and biotechnology advances have provided transforming capabilities that could be leveraged for integrative global biosurveillance. Global infectious disease surveillance holds great promise as a tool to mitigate the endemic and pandemic… read more… dation; information science and technology *Helen Cui E-mail: hhcui@lanl.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Surveillance of Laboratory-confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Health Information Exchange
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During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations reportable. Reporting of influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals and local… read more… Health Services for their contributions. *Natasha Close E-mail: natasha.close@doh.wa.gov (page number not for citation … -
FITS - Flu Immunization Tracking System: Capturing County Level Data to Inform Public Health Practice
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Historically, it has been the role of local health departments to administer, monitor, and report flu vaccinations of its residents to the state health department. In 2009, the looming threat of an influenza outbreak (H1N1) led to the extension of… read more… Health Manage Pract.2000;6:67�75. *Lauren Drinkard E-mail: ldrinkar@kent.edu (page number not for citation … -
Mobile Technology Systems for Surveillance in Low Resource Settings
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Mobile technology provides opportunities to monitor and improve health in areas of the world where resources are scarce. Poor infrastructure and the lack of access to medical services for millions have led to increased usage of mobile technology for… read more… for Disease Control and Prevention. *Donna Medeiros E-mail: donna_d_medeiros@yahoo.com (page number not for … -
A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice
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Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more… centers; sustained relationships *Michael Coletta E-mail: mcoletta@naccho.org (page number not for citation … -
The Implementation of an Outbreak Management Solution in New York State
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Most outbreaks are small and localized in nature, although it is larger outbreaks that result in the most public attention. So a solution to manage an outbreak has to be able to accommodate a response to small outbreaks in a single jurisdiction… read more… informatics; integrated system *Hwa-Gan Chang E-mail: hgc04@health.state.ny.us (page number not for citation … -
Inferring Travel from Social Media
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The spread of infectious diseases is facilitated by human travel. Infectious diseases are often introduced into a population by travelers and then spread among susceptible individuals. Likewise uninfected susceptible travelers can move into… read more… modeling; surveillance; twitter *Alessio Signorini E-mail: alessio-signorini@uiowa.edu (page number not for …