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  • PHIN-MS deployment acceptability survey for the data transfer of syndromic data between hospitals and public health

    Content Type: Abstract

    PHIN-MS can send and receive data securely and automatically. It is used by many hospitals in the state(s) to send data to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) for both our National Electronic Disease… read more
    … hospitals to easily poll/receive syndromic data reports back from SC DHEC. This enables a two-way communication …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to … read more
    … in the background! injection dataset but absent from the back- ground-only dataset; (2) the ‘false alarm rate’ (FAR), …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … in the background! injection dataset but absent from the back- ground-only dataset; (2) the ‘false alarm rate’ (FAR), …
  • Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The resources available in most public health departments are limited. Access to trained technical personnel and stateof-the-art computing resources are also lacking. Customizable off-the-shelf systems contribute only to creation of information… read more
    … The dynamic, model driven, information processing back- end services support context independent, disparate …
  • Surveillance for acute respiratory infections: should we include all outpatient visits or focus on urgent care areas?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) represents a rich source of information that can be harnessed for epidemic surveillance. At this time, however, we do not know how EMR-based data elements should be combined to improve the performance… read more
    … in the background! injection dataset but absent from the back- ground-only dataset; (2) the ‘false alarm rate’ (FAR), …
  • A data simulation model using NRDM pharmaceutical sales counts

    Content Type: Abstract

    In disease surveillance, an outbreak is often present in more than one data type. If each data type is analyzed separately rather than combined, the statistical power to detect an outbreak may suffer because no single data source… read more
    … 5353 distribution. Third, we combine the sub-nodes back into the original node by adding the allocated counts …
  • Primary Care Surveillance in the UK - Actions, Outcomes, Benefits

    Content Type: Abstract

    Routine primary care data provide the means to systematically monitor a variety of syndromes which could give early warning of health protection issues (microbiological and chemical). It is possible to track milder illnesses which may not present to… read more
    … illness) and environmental sampling results (indicating a lack of ground-level pollution). CONCLUSIONS: Primary care …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … gate or de-identified form that have capability to link back to identified data when necessary; (c) further develop … program, CDC has the capacity to conduct detailed follow-back assessments with data maintained at CDC (6,7). In … into public health threats may prompt follow-back to individual patients, with the involvement of health …