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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/ … -
Infection Watch Live- A Real-time, Geospatial Mapping Tool of Hospital Triage Data for Public Consumption
Content Type: Abstract
To inform health professionals and the public directly about real-time utilization of local Emergency Departments for respiratory and gastrointestinal illness to enable enhanced communication and collaboration between Public Health and health care… read more… be a valuable addition to the public health surveillance toolkit and has been recognized provincially and … -
Discover the 2014 ISDS Conference
Content Type: Webinar
Whether you are planning on attending the ISDS Conference for the first time this December or you have been attending since 2002, the ISDS Scientific Program Committee invites you to discover the 2014 ISDS Conference! This webinar will highlight the… read more… #2014ISDS 2014 Conference Resources • Travel Request Toolkit: hPp://www.syndromic.org/annual-‐conference/ … request-‐toolkit • Funding opportuni?es: – Award for … -
Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters
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Computational and statistical methods for detecting disease clusters, such as the spatial scan statistic, have become frequently used tools in epidemiology. However, they simply tell the user where a cluster is, and leave the… read more… 26, pp. 1481-1496, 1997. [2] [2] F. Hardisty, "The GeoViz Toolkit," in Auto-Carto, Las Vegas, NV, 2005. [3] [3] S. … -
Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) Vendor Analysis
Content Type: Report
Public health agencies have to work with a several disparate systems, a lack of robust reporting capabilities, and a lack of standardized surveillance, along with inherent funding challenges. The purpose of this analysis is to help state and local… read more… now has a holistic view of the outbreak and a large toolkit of reporting options to show the information they … in a workshop to prioritize the agencies' requirements. • Toolkit: EDSS Requirements Comparability Matrix (Appendix A) … • Align with a few vendors who may meet the needs • Toolkit: Vendor Analysis section of this document Prepare • … -
User Interface Design for a Biosurveillance System
Content Type: Abstract
INDICATOR provides an open source platform for biosurveillance and outbreak detection. Data sources currently include emergency department, patient advisory nurse, outpatient clinic, and school absence activity We are currently working with the… read more… and flulike illness (Fig. 1). The team chose Google Web Toolkit (GWT), a well- supported open source software … -
Onboarding - Oregon Experience
Content Type: Presentation Slides
From the BioSense 2.0 Onboarding Workgroup meeting, November 5, 2014 Presenter Laurel Boyd Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention Public Health Division Oregon Health Authority read more… process? Can we think about developing a template (toolkit) for jurisdictions to use at whatever level of data … -
A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice
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Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more… Practice*A Biosur- veillance Resource Compendium is a CD toolkit intended to help public health agencies implement an …