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  • Building your Dream Surveillance Information System

    Content Type: Webinar

    Epidemiologists are often frustrated by the lack of timely, accurate, and comprehensive surveillance data. This webinar describes the results of three years of research into a new approach to surveillance information collection, management, and use… read more
    … Epidemiologists are often frustrated by the lack of timely, accurate, and comprehensive surveillance … Epidemiologists are often frustrated by the lack of timely, accurate, and comprehensive surveillance …
  • Update from CDC's Public Health Surveillance & Informatics Program Office (PHSIPO)

    Content Type: Abstract

    The practice of public health surveillance is evolving as electronic health records (EHRs) and automated laboratory information systems are increasing adopted, as new approaches for health information exchange are employed, and as new health… read more
    … opportunities for providing population health information back to clinicians. For public health surveys, new … opportunities for providing population health information back to clinicians. For public health surveys, new …
  • The Epidemiologic Vocabulary of the West and the Former Soviet Union: Different Sides of the Same Science

    Content Type: Abstract

    As part of the US Department of Defense strategy to counter biological threats, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s Cooperative Biological Engagement Program is enhancing the capabilities of countries in the former Soviet Union (FSU) to detect,… read more
    … Consequently many fundamental Soviet terms and concepts lack simple correlates in English and other languages … Consequently many fundamental Soviet terms and concepts lack simple correlates in English and other languages …
  • Cross Disciplinary Consultancy: Negation Detection Use Case

    Content Type: Abstract

    Despite considerable effort since the turn of the century to develop Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods and tools for detecting negated terms in chief complaints, few standardised methods have emerged. Those methods that have emerged (e.g.… read more
    … with customised solutions. Important reasons for this lack of progress include (a) limited shareable datasets for … with customised solutions. Important reasons for this lack of progress include (a) limited shareable datasets for …
  • Childhood home based unintentional injuries Surveillance in Punjab India

    Content Type: Abstract

    Injury and violence are public health problems now-a-days all over the world. Over 950000 children less than 18 years of age die as a result of injuries, 95% of which occur in low and middle income countries (LMIC) including India. Unintentional… read more
    … of childhood unintentional injuries. However, there is lack of proper surveillance data on burden of unintentional … of childhood unintentional injuries. However, there is lack of proper surveillance data on burden of unintentional …
  • Digital Sources of Food Purchasing Data for the Surveillance of Dietary Patterns

    Content Type: Abstract

    In Canada, the economic impact of unhealthy eating is estimated at $6.3 billion annually and in the US the estimated cost is $87 billion. Despite the critical need to identify effective diet-related interventions through empirical evaluation, public… read more
    … evaluation, public health practitioners and researchers lack timely access to representative data sources collected … evaluation, public health practitioners and researchers lack timely access to representative data sources collected …
  • Big Data Analytics for Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    A variety of big data analytics, techniques and tools including social media analytics, open source visualizations, statistical anomaly detection, use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and geospatial mapping, are used for infectious… read more
    … critical care, injury, and trauma stakeholders, currently lack this level of sophistication. To respond to most MCIs … critical care, injury, and trauma stakeholders, currently lack this level of sophistication. To respond to most MCIs …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 1- Data Ingestion into the BioSense Platform

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … 1.  A Pa;ent ID must exist and is > 2 characters 2.  A Visit Date must exist as a valid date and is >= 8 characters … ID •  Unique Patient ID & Medical Record Number •  Visit Date/Time & Visit Date •  Unique Visit ID •  Processed …