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Cluster Detection Comparison in Syndromic Surveillance
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The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) collects data daily from 50 of 61 (82%) emergency departments (EDs) in NYC representing 94% of all ED visits (avg daily visits ~10,000). The information… read more -
Successful implementation of electronic disease reporting in Georgia
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The Ministry of Health of Georgia accepted the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) as an official disease reporting system in 2012. The Georgian government adopted electronic reporting for both veterinary and human diseases in… read more -
Comparison of Influenza-like Illness Syndrome Classification Between Two Syndromic Surveillance Systems
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In 2004, the BioDefend (BD) syndromic surveillance (SS) system was implemented in Duval County hospitals (Jacksonville, FL). Daily emergency department chief complaints are manually classified and entered into the BD system by… read more -
Construction of an Indicator for Syndromic Surveillance of Gastroenteritis using Data from a General Practitioner Network, Bordeaux, France
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In France, surveillance of seasonal gastroenteritis uses to be monitored by an information system based on a computer network of physicians so called Sentinel Network (1). Regionally, the use of this system as limitations. SOS Medecin is an… read more -
Detection of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Chief Complaint Data
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Following an Oct 12-13, 2006 snowstorm, almost 400,000 homes in western New York lost power, some for up to 12 days. News reports said that emergency rooms saw many patients with CO exposure; 3 deaths were attributed to CO poisoning. As part of NYS… read more -
Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics
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The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more -
Disease Surveillance Systems for Sensitive Population Groups
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Disease surveillance systems are currently used for the early detection of disease outbreak before diagnosis is confirmed in order to mobilize a rapid response . The fear of epidemics or bioterrorism resulted in the development of systems for the… read more -
Distributed Multi-agent Architecture for Decision Support in Public Health Networks
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One of the significant challenges that multi-user biosurveillance systems have is alarm management. Currently deployed syndromic surveillance systems [1â3] have a single user interface. However, different users have different objectives; the… read more