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  • Assessing the Coverage of BioCaster Terms in Web News

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    We describe here a multilingual ontology to support disease surveillance by intelligent text mining systems from Web-based rumours. We informally assessed the coverage of its English terms on large sample of news collected from the Web.
    … texts. Text mining (TM) – the extraction of structured con- tent from unstructured free text - is increasingly be- … Further Information: Nigel Collier, collier@nii.ac.jp www.biocaster.nii.ac.jp Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • A Closer Look at Developing a Statewide Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural State

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    This paper describes the issues associated with the creation of a statewide emergency department syndromic surveillance system, part of the South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN), in a predominately rural state.
    … towards a response protocol manual related to how to con- duct follow-up investigations on aberrations, analysis … Health In- formation Network Messaging System. http://www.cdc.gov/phin/activities/applications-services/phinms/ …
  • A Model and Archetype Based Interoperability Framework for Near Real-Time Surveillance Systems

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    The pilot near real time surveillance system ASTER, which currently monitors the French Forces in Djibouti and French Guiana [1], has been especially designed for inter-allied interoperability. This paper briefly describes the rationale of this… read more
    … privacy, information accuracy and timeliness. These con- straints advocate against a central data warehousing, … [3] The OpenEHR Foundation. Available at: http://www.openehr.org/. Accessed July 2008. Further Information : …
  • BioDefend Syndromic Surveillance System Influenza Activity Detection

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    Many syndromic surveillance systems have been developed and are operational, yet lack concise guidelines for investigating and conducting followups on daily alarms. Daily emergency department visits from six reporting hospitals… read more
    … demons- trates the importance of a concise protocol to comp- ile, analyze, interpret, and respond to syndromic sur- … Influenza Surveillence: Week 50. Retrieved 7/1/2007, www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/epi/ Advances in Disease …
  • Implementation of a New Syndromic Surveillance System in April 2006 in French Guiana

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    An outbreak of dengue fever has occured in French Guiana since the end of November 2005 until July 2006. The dengue serotype circulating was DEN-2, responsible of more than 2 000 confirmed cases and 4 deaths. The previous… read more
    … in the cen- ter of control in Cayenne. Those data were con- fronted with the lab’s data and the analysis made by … from the CDC Working Group. MMWR 2004;53:1-13. (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/rr/rr5305.pdf) Further Information : …
  • Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course

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    Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more
    … and CJ Staes.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 39 teaching resource. Fifteen students … 2010. References 1 AMIA 10!10. Available at https://www.amia.org/10!10. 2 About the Deparment. Available at http://www.bmi.utah.edu/? pageId#2182. Virtual public health …
  • Application of biosurveillance methodology to the 2010 Asian foot-and-mouth disease outbreaks

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    Argus is an event-based, multi-lingual, biosurveillance system, which captures and analyzes information from publicly available internet media. Argus produces reports that summarize and contextualize direct, indirect, and… read more
    … Reilly et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 35 2 Nelson NP, Brownstein JS, Hartley … Disease Factsheet. February 2007. Available at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ … Animal Health Code 2010. Vol. 2. Available at http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/ mcode/en_sommaire.htm. 5 World …
  • Temporo-spatial surveillance of influenza-like illness: preliminary results from the Idaho infectious disease reporting network

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    Current influenza-like illness (ILI) monitoring in Idaho is based on syndromic surveillance using laboratory data, combined with periodic person-to-person reports collected by Idaho state workers. This system relies on voluntary … read more
    … of Health and Mental Hygiene. Available from http://www.satscan.org) for cluster analysis, with Monte Carlo … Wilper et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 6666 Acknowledgements This paper was … electronic health records. N Eng J Med 2010;363:501–4 (www.NEJM.org). 3 Yih WK, Deshpande S, Fuller C, Heisey-Grove …