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Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System
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Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more -
Event Detection in a Vulnerable Population
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The City of Atlanta, volunteer organizations, and the faith community operate several homeless shelters throughout the city. Services available at these shelters vary, ranging from day services, such as meals, mail collection,… read more -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more -
Exception Reporting Systems for ‘Flu Like’ Syndromes in Scotland
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The syndromic surveillance system in Scotland was implemented in response to Gleneagles hosting the G8 summit in July 2005. Part of this surveillance system used data from NHS24, a nurse led telephone help line that is the means… read more -
Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process
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Currently, Indiana monitors emergency department patient chief complaint data from 73 geographically dispersed hospitals. These data are analyzed using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-… read more -
Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks
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HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more -
Expanding the Functionality of Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining and Query Development
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The Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS) currently receives approximately 5,000 near real-time chief complaint messages from 55 hospital emergency departments daily. The ISDH partners with the Regenstrief Institute to… read more -
NIST Syndromic Surveillance Test Suite 2015 Edition
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Details about the ONC 2015 Edition certification criteria for Syndromic Surveillance and the related NIST Test Suite were explained previously. We now provide an overview and key information regarding updates to the Test Suite and how it is designed… read more