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  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … designated health outcome. EDs may update individual visit data, providing discharge (i.e., post-visit) diagnosis codes (i.e., diagnosis or external cause … As the diagnosis codes are assigned at the end of the visit when all the information (e.g., laboratory test) is …
  • Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since July 2004 the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received data from DoD military and VA outpatient clinics (not in real time). In January 2006 real-time hospital data (e.g. chief complaints and… read more
    … within 24 hours of discharge were grouped into a single visit. For DoD data, each visit to a facility, regardless of duration since the last dis- charge is considered as one visit. We calculated both the percent of total visits that …
  • The use of NC DETECT ED data to examine heat-related illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 119 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more
    … line-listing data were used to assign each HRI ED visit to one of the following categories: … negligence, no A/C, substance abuse or undefined. Visit categories were examined by age group over the study …
  • Improving Public Health Surveillance methods via Smart Home technologies

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health surveillance relies on surveys and/or self-reported data collection, both of which require manpower, time commitment, and financial resources from public health agencies and participants. The survey results can quickly become outdated… read more
    … which can be used to monitor activity in the home (i.e. lack of travel indicates sedentary behaviour), as well as … which can be used to monitor activity in the home (i.e. lack of travel indicates sedentary behaviour), as well as …
  • Effective Collaboration Models for Statiscians and Public Health Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health departments need enhanced surveillance tools for population monitoring, and external researchers have expertise and methods to provide these tools. However, collaboration with potential solution developers and students in academia,… read more
    … departments must respond to successive crises and often lack the time for requirements analysis and technical … departments must respond to successive crises and often lack the time for requirements analysis and technical …
  • The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more
    … If any sys- tem-related difficulties arose during follow-up activi- ties, these were reported to BioSense … plague and 1 Russian spring-summer encephalitis. Upon follow up, all 8 alerts were determined to not repre- sent … mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false …
  • Data Visualization for Health Surveillance: Current Concepts and New Horizons

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presenters Wayne Loschen, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL) Karl Soetebier, MPW, Georgia Division of Public Health Paul Picciano, PhD,… read more
    … for collaborators! §  Contact me at hardisty@psu.edu §  Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website … (e.g., local units, developing nations) §  Lack of IT resources/expertise §  Non-programmers, …
  • Preventing blindness due to diabetic retinopathy in India: Need for a paradigm shift

    Content Type: Webinar

    Estimates suggest that there are 65 million persons living with diabetes in India and 6 million are at risk of going blind due to retinopathy. Recent studies highlight that 45% persons with diabetes are already blind when they present to an eye care… read more
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