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Subsidized laboratory testing as an incentive for improved livestock disease reporting
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Livestock owners normally pay the full cost of disease testing. As a result the number of laboratory submissions is dependent on the owner's perception that testing is beneficial. This decreases the likelihood of an accurate diagnosis and biases the… read more… effort and support with this project. *Kathy Zurbrigg E-mail: kathy.zurbrigg@ontario.ca (page number not for … -
Use of CDC's Epidemic Information Exchange system as a Disease Surveillance Tool
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Epi-X is an internet-based secure website for the exchange of information regarding developing public health events. Reports are exchanged with state epidemiologists, state health officers, and other key public health officials. Provisional and… read more… surveillance; secure; case finding *James Schwendinger E-mail: bnz2@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Using cKASS to facilitate knowledge authoring and sharing for syndromic surveillance
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Mining text for real-time syndromic surveillance usually requires a comprehensive knowledge base (KB) which contains detailed information about concepts relevant to the domain, such as disease names, symptoms, drugs, and radiology findings. Two such… read more… Bled, Slovenia, July 6; 2011:75�82. *Liqin Wang E-mail: liqin.wang@utah.edu (page number not for citation … -
Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more… *Charles Ishikawa E-mail: cishikawa@syndromic.org (page number not for citation … -
US Destinations of Newly Arrived Immigrants and Refugees with Suspect TB, 2009-2010
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Immigrants and refugees are required to undergo tuberculosis (TB) screening before entering the United States (US)(1). Nearly 700 overseas panel physicians designated by the US Department of State, perform these screenings (2). Over 450,000 new… read more… http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/DRO/dro_org.html. *Deborah Lee E-mail: DLEE1@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … -
Digital Surveillance of the Illegal Wildlife Trade: Identifying Hot-spots for Emerging Zoonoses
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The illegal wildlife trade is a multi-faceted, clandestine industry that has led to the disruption of fragile ecosystems, facilitated the spread of pathogens, and has led to the emergence of novel infectious diseases in humans, domestic animals, and… read more… Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2001;356:6. *Amy Sonricker Hansen E-mail: alhansen@albany.edu (page number not for citation … -
Uganda and Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program Case studies in Applied epidemiology No. 001 - 815
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WHO designated yellow fever as an endemic disease in Ethiopia in the early 1950s. Yellow fever, a zoonotic hemorrhagic fever disease (sylvatic and urban types), are endemic in Ethiopia due to its geographical location and climatic conditions… read more… program, Federal Ministry of Health COUNTRY: Ethiopia Email: zegeyehailemariam@yahoo.com WHAT DOMAIN(S) DO YOU … -
SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance
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Health care information is a fundamental source of data for biosurveillance, configuring electronic health records to report relevant data to health departments is technically challenging, labor intensive, and often requires custom solutions for… read more… ! EMR Vendors: Cerner, Allscripts, Siemens, VA World Vist, OpenMRS, Microsoft ! Major payors ! Pharma ! Major …