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Using Business Intelligence Tools to Automate Data Capture and Reporting
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) serves public health users across NC at the local, regional and state levels, providing early event detection and situational awareness capabilities. At the… read more -
Using Electronic Surveillance Systems in Resource-Poor Settings: Why and How
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Difficulties in timely acquisition and interpretation of accurate data on communicable diseases can impede outbreak detection and control. These limitations are of global importance: they contribute to avoidable morbidity,… read more -
A Suggestion to Improve Timely Feedback of Infectious Disease Surveillance Data at a Provincial Level in South Korea
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In South Korea, the NNDSS is organized at three levels: local, provincial, and central. At the local level, physicians report the cased to the Public Health Center (PHC) and PHC conduct control measures. At the provincial level, the PHC reports the… read more -
Using Emergency Department Disposition Data to Monitor Hospitalizations for Influenza-like Illness
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Emergency Department (ED) syndromic surveillance data for influenza-like illness (ILI) have been found to provide timely and representative information about current influenza activity in NYC. DOHMH monitors visits daily from 50 of 61… read more -
Using ESSENCE to Track a Gastrointestinal Outbreak in a Homeless Shelter in Miami-Dade County, 2008
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Although Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) provides tools to detect a significant alert regarding an unusual public health event, combining that information with … read more -
Using NC DETECT Summary Reports to Share Syndromic Information
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) provides early event detection and public health situational awareness to hospital-based and public health users statewide. Authorized users are currently able… read more -
Using NLP on VA Electronic Medical Records to Facilitate Epidemiologic Case Investigations
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A major goal of biosurveillance is the timely detection of an infectious disease outbreak. Once a disease has been identified, another very important goal is to find all known cases of the disease to assist public health… read more -
Using Open-Source Grid-Computing Technology to Improve Processing Time for Geospatial Syndromic Surveillance Data
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Outbreak detection algorithms for syndromic surveillance data are becoming increasingly complex. Initial algorithms focused on temporal data but newer methods incorporate geospatial dimensions. As methods evolve, it is important to understand the… read more