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Online Temporal Clustering for Outbreak Detection
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We hypothesize that epidemics around their onset tend to affect primarily a well-defined subgroup of the overall population that is for some reason particularly susceptible. While the vulnerable cohort is often well described for… read more -
Ontario's Telehealth: A Novel Snydromic Surveillance System
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The Ontario Telehealth Telephone Helpline (henceforth referred to as “Telehealth”) was implemented in Ontario in 2001. It is administered by Clinidata, a private contractor hired by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care,… read more -
Ontology of a Cyberenvironment for Malaria Surveillance
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Malaria control programs suffer from weak and fragmented surveillance of the wide range of information required to manage the disease effectively and efficiently. A computational framework to manage, integrate, analyze, and visualize… read more -
Ontology-Based Automatic Chief Complaints Classification for Syndromic Surveillance
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Free-text emergency department triage chief complaints (CCs) are a popular data source used by many syndromic surveillance systems because of their timeliness, availability, and relevance. The lack of standardization of CC vocabulary poses a major… read more -
Open Source Development of Syndromic Investigation Decision Support Tools
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Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS), a syndromic surveillance system created by the University of Pittsburgh has been used in Ohio by the state and local health departments since late 2003. There are currently 133… read more -
Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System
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In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more -
Optimizing Performance of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome
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A number of different methods are currently used to classify patients into syndromic groups based on the patient’s chief complaint (CC). We previously reported results using an “Ngram” text processing program for building classifiers… read more -
Optimizing Simultaneously the Geometry and the Internal Cohesion of Clusters
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Irregularly shaped cluster finders frequently end up with a solution consisting of a large zone z spreading through the map, which is merely a collection of the highest valued regions, but not a geographically sound cluster. One way… read more