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  • Ebola, Enterovirus, MERS, Novel Flu, and other Challenges for Public Health Surveillance Practitioners

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    Public health practitioners endeavor to expand and refine their syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems that are designed to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more
    … Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Ebola virus strains, and other viruses associated with … Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Ebola virus strains, and other viruses associated with …
  • Identification of a measles case using syndromic surveillance in Salt Lake County, Utah

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    In March-April, 2011, Salt Lake Valley Health Department (SLVHD) investigated an outbreak of measles (N=9) resulting from a single imported case from Europe. Syndromic surveillance was used to identify measles-like illness (MLI) and enhance early… read more
    … 4th ed. 2009. Retrieved July 18, 2011, from http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/ surv-manual/index.html. 2. Health … Monitoring Systems, Inc., EpiCenter, v 2.10. http:// www.hmsinc.com/service/epicenter.html. 3. Centers for Disease Control …
  • Experience with Clinician-Based Syndromic Surveillance in West Texas

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    Classical disease monitoring in local public health jurisdictions has been based on a list of “notifiable diseases”, more or less consistent from state-to-state.  While laboratories’ compliance with this requirement is, in general, excellent,… read more
    … of statistical aberrations in diagnosis code, chief com- plaint, or analysis of other data streams have been … veteri- nary, nursing, EMS and environmental health com- munities in 2003 by public health officials (PHOs) of … on Public Health Preparedness and Bioterrorism). http://www.lhc.ca.gov/lhcdir/report170a.html (last accessed June …
  • Defining emergency department asthma visits for public health surveillance

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    Tracking emergency department (ED) asthma visits is an important part of asthma surveillance, as ED visits can be preventable and may represent a failure of asthma control efforts. When using limited clinical ED datasets for secondary purposes such… read more
    … The prevailing approach uses only the primary ICD-9-CM diagnosis assigned to the ED visit; however, doing so may … The prevailing approach uses only the primary ICD�9�CM diag- nosis (Dx) for the ED visit (2); however, doing so … may underestimate the public health impact of asthma. We con- ducted this pilot study to determine the value of …
  • Linking Informatics and Cross-Programmatic Public Health Strategic Objectives

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    There is national recognition of the need for cross-programmatic data and system coordination and integration for surveillance, prevention, response, and control implementation. To accomplish this public health must develop an informatics competency… read more
    … the basis of the strategic objectives and destinations. A com- munity-balanced scorecard (CBSC) approach (2), grounded … on your path to success. http://baseline-consulting.com. 2. Epstein P, Simone A. Community balanced scorecards … for strategic public health improvement. http://www.rtmteam.net/page. php?pageName�Articles_Papers. …
  • Human-learned lessons about machine learning in public health surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented December 13, 2018. For public health surveillance, is machine learning worth the effort? What methods are relevant? Do you need special hardware? This talk was motivated by these and other questions asked by ISDS members. It will focus… read more
    … http://www.mayofamily.com/RLM/txt_Clarke_Superiority.html "What we … similar patients, ICD codes, words… What tools are used? CoT? R? Python? Proprietary SaaS?  Recommendation: start …
  • North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps

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    Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more
    … District (K-12) Pandemic Influenza Planning Checklist. www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/school/schoolchecklis t.html. 4. … about DotNetNuke or to download the software, visit www.dotnetnuke.com. 5. Powell T, Tarrant County School Health Surveillance …
  • 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
    … §  Visit the GeoVISTA Center Website http://www.geovista.psu.edu/ www.aptima.com Boston ▪ DC ▪ Dayton © 2009, Aptima, Inc. Data … Guidelines §  Provide action at the point of interest –  Co-locate display and control –  Reduce extended mappings, …