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  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • Mental and Behavioral Health Resources

    Content Type: References

    The document includes examples of mental and behavioral health resources at the national, federal, state, and local levels. This list was compiled as a supplement for an… read more
    … violence and support child and adolescent well-being. ➔ Toolkit for Schools: Engaging Parents to Support Health and … s://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/connectedness/connectedness_toolkit.htm https://vetoviolence.cdc.gov/apps/main/home …
  • Automated Generation of Hypothesis of Processes Causing Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    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. …
  • Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    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

    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
    … interesting possibilities to expand this surveillance toolkit. This is an Open Access article distributed under …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …