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Collaborative development of use cases for geospatially enabling a health information exchange
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Given the clear relationship between spatial contexts and health, the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (ICEPHI) aims to serve both the needs of public health researchers and practitioners by… read more -
Comparison of Distribute and ILINet for national influenza surveillance
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During the spring of 2009, a public health emergency was declared in response to the emergence of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Owing to the response, timely data were needed to improve situational awareness and to inform… read more -
Comparison of respiratory, febrile and influenza-like illness syndromes to detect laboratory-reported H1N1 and RSV, Influenza Season 2009–10, New York City
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The New York City (NYC) Department of Health and Mental Hygiene monitors visits daily from 49 of 54 NYC emergency departments (EDs), capturing 95% of all ED visits. ED visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) have reflected influenza… read more -
Comparison of the US outpatient influenza-like illness surveillance network and the Google Flu Trends from 2008 to 2010
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http://Google.org developed a regression model that used the volume of influenza-related search queries best correlated with the proportion of outpatient visits related to influenza-like illness (ILI) model to estimate the level of ILI… read more -
Creating a fast and flexible syndromic surveillance reporting system
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Syndromic surveillance systems significantly enhance the ability of Public Health Units to identify, quantify, and respond to disease outbreaks. Existing systems provide excellent classification, identification, and alerting functions,… read more -
Creating a shared epidemiologic vocabulary: lessons from the former Soviet Union
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As part of the United States Department of Defense strategy to counter biological threats, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s biological threat reduction program is enhancing the capabilities of countries in the former Soviet Union… read more -
Data quality in federated disease surveillance: using variability as an indicator of quality
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Most, if not all, disease surveillance systems are federated in the sense that hospitals, doctors’ offices, pharmacies are the source of most surveillance data. Although a health department may request or mandate that these… read more -
Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow
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When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more