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  • 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
    … Concepts and New Horizons 23 September 2009 The GeoViz Toolkit: An easy-to-use approach to ESDA Frank Hardisty … Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis Software – The GeoViz Toolkit §  Open Source §  Web Delivered §  Video Intro … and Zhan) Integrating Proclude and the GeoViz Toolkit §  Clicking on clusters selects them in the rest of …
  • Experts Collaborate to Develop a Standardized Syndrome Definition for Cold-related Illness

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In winter, people are at risk for cold-related illness (CRI) such as hypothermia. Deaths coded as weather-related from 2006 through 2010 showed exposure to excessive cold as the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States.1… read more
    … Trend data can be used to develop winter weather toolkits, such as those used in Kansas and Wisconsin.  … Trend data can be used to develop winter weather toolkits, such as those used in Kansas and Wisconsin. …
  • NSSP Community of Practice (CoP) Monthly Calls

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2025
    • December 2025 - Recording (Topics: Updates to the ARI Activity Levels for 25-26 Season, Syndromic Surveillance Success Stories,…
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    … April 2022  (Topic: 3 presenters- AMC Enhancements, STLT Toolkit, SyS to find Hepatitis Cases)- Recording   March … April 2022  (Topic: 3 presenters- AMC Enhancements, STLT Toolkit, SyS to find Hepatitis Cases)- Recording   March … April 2022  (Topic: 3 presenters- AMC Enhancements, STLT Toolkit, SyS to find Hepatitis Cases)- Recording   March …
  • Cloud Computing for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Two significant barriers to greater use of syndromic surveillance techniques are computational time and software complexity. Computational time refers to the time for many methods (for example, scan statistics and AMOEBA statistics) to create… read more
    … machines, or images, for the public to use. The GeoViz Toolkit was one of the software packages delivered in this … implied. References 1. Hardisty F, Robinson A. The GeoViz Toolkit: using component- oriented coordination methods to … (page number not for citation purpose) Fig. 1. The GeoViz Toolkit is shown with multiple views of rates of ILI. The …
  • Cold-Related Illness - CSTE

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Cold-Related Illness Query: Guidance for Implementing Cold-Related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice In winter, people are at risk… read more
    … 17 • Appendix 1: Kansas Cold Weather Toolkit • Appendix 2: Wisconsin Winter Weather Toolkit 3 Acknowledgements This document was a result of … Kansas Cold Weather Toolkit Planning for Cold Weather Safety in Kansas For …
  • Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework

    Content Type: Abstract

    Most public health workers could reach agreement on the general functions and operations regarding public health’s traditional operations, such as food safety inspections, outbreak investigations, or immunization clinics. However, there is much less… read more
    … N. PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit; RAND Health; 2008:217. Preparedness business …
  • Public Health Data and the Law

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation addresses the legal principles framing the collection, use, and release of health data for public health activities, including issues such as privacy, confidentiality, HIPAA, and data use agreements. Presenter… read more
    … and-schools-toolkit/comparison-of-ferpa-and-hipaa-privacy-rule/  FOIA … ness/public-health-emergency-law/public-health-and-schools-toolkit/comparison-of-ferpa-and-hipaa-privacy-rule/ …
  • The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the NSW Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System operating in and around Sydney, Australia signalled a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent… read more
    … surveillance to the routine public health surveillance toolkit. The proportion of outbreaks with a known organism …