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  • Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … analyze data collected, and engage partners/leadership in follow-up procedures.   Presenter:  David Swenson, AHEDD … Notify and Engage Partners/Leadership Conduct Reach-back Conduct Response Management Agenda Develop Protocols … and might be of public health significance, use your follow-up protocol. Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & …
  • Content Type: Report

    The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) fills the need for a practical forum and coordinating mechanism for collaboration among subject matter experts (SMEs) from stakeholder groups that may normally not interact but who, when… read more
    … Another issue that generated great discussion was the lack of opportunity to train existing health department … or to learn how to connect with ISDS, please visit www.healthsurveillance.org or email the ISDS Executive …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    Query purpose: To assist state, tribal, local, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying visits in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care (UC) settings with diagnostic codes associated with a… read more
    … and federal public health practitioners in identifying visits in the emergency department (ED) and urgent care (UC) … Query Description: This definition is designed to capture visits for a broad range of respiratory conditions using … any of the specific terms listed is present, the visit is automatically included in the syndrome. Automatic …
  • Content Type: Use Case

    Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Reportable Disease Cluster Detection in the Context of Sporadic Adoption of PCR-based Diagnostic Tests consultancy call held May 3, at 12 pm ET. Problem… read more
    … to the CC/discharge diagnosis fields affect how an ED visit is defined. If the change is substantial, using a … issue, since a positive Shigella/EIEC result might prompt follow-up cultures that would not otherwise have been …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation given August 3, 2017 describes work toward applying machine learning methods to CDC’s autism surveillance program. CDC’s population-based autism surveillance is labor-intensive and costly, as it requires clinicians to manually… read more
    … behavior1  Impairments in social communication • e.g., lack of eye contact, inability to hold a conversation  … a PPV of 0.61  Other symptoms will be difficult: – (c) a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, … in the reciprocal activity of throwing the ball back and forth with the examiner." "Child reportedly does …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    This focus of this webinar is to describe different syndromic surveillance approaches to drug overdose surveillance. Presenters will share how their case definitions were developed, stakeholders involved, intended audience and uses, as well as… read more
    … substance abuse Case Definitions !  Any drug-related ED visit "  Drug overdose "  Substance abuse "  Drug not …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    Two public health practitioners will describe their experiences collaborating with University researchers to develop and evaluate new informatics tools for public health. They will identify factors that led to the successes and failures in those… read more
    … system ! ED data for syndromic surveillance ! TB case follow-up notices !  TB screening ! Infrastructure !  Share … !  Work together seeking grants !  Look for “piggy-back” opportunities 11 Setting ! Denver Health and Hospital … Dollars for people’s time !   Most setbacks were from lack of resources ! Oil: trust & respect !   Learn the …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more
    … criteria � Facilities that are “emergency”; patient visit for “emergency” � Individuals ages 11 and older � …