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A Global Landscape of Participatory Disease Surveillance
Content Type: Webinar
Citizen engagement in public health is being transformed through systems that enable users to directly report on symptoms of disease via email and smartphone technology. Participatory systems encourage routine submission of syndromic data by theā¦ read more -
Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain
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OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locationsā¦ read more -
Data Integration and Analytics within the National Bio-Surveillance Integration System
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This presentation introduces the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) National Bio-Surveillance Integration System (NBIS) and the analytics functionality within the NBIS that integrates and analyzes structured and unstructured data streamsā¦ read more -
Data-Adapted Temporal Alerting Algorithms for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper discusses selection of temporal alerting algorithms for syndromic surveillance to achieve reliable detection performance based on statistical properties and the epidemiological context of the input data. We used quantities calculated fromā¦ read more -
Data-Adaptive Multivariate Control Charts for Routine Health Monitoring
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This paper investigates the use of data-adaptive multivariate statistical process control (MSPC) charts for outbreak detection using real-world syndromic data. The widely used EARS [1] methods and other adaptive implementations assume implicitlyā¦ read more -
Death Certificate Surveillance in New Hampshire
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The Death Certificate Surveillance was implemented in October 2001 to enhance New Hampshire's ability to monitor for bioterrorism and other public health threats, such as communicable diseases and chemical exposures. In 2003, this surveillanceā¦ read more -
Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data
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The goal of this paper is to describe a methodology used to create a gold standard set of emergency department (ED) data that can subsequently be used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of syndrome definitions. -
Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance
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The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.