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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 … The spatiotemporal clustering algorithms in the GeoViz Toolkit, as well as the multiple view visualizations, are … -
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 … -
Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework
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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 … -
The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks
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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 … -
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. … -
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 … Wisconsin Department of Health Services winter weather toolkit. This toolkit was supported in part by the … -
Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification
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This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.… was implemented using the open-source Stan- ford NLP toolkit. The presence or absence of all fre- quently … -
Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance
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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… interesting possibilities to expand this surveillance toolkit. This is an Open Access article distributed under …