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Timeliness of information has a key role in disease reporting, and may be easily impaired by several factors affecting data entry and utilization.1 Regarding data entry, previous studies have shown that monitoring strategies, such as telephone reminders and supervision visits ensure reporting timeliness.2 Likewise, limited reporting infrastructure may prevent adequate reporting and effective data utilization.3,4 The Peruvian Air Force, in collaboration with the US Naval Medical Research Center Detachment in Lima, Peru, implemented in 2009 an electronic disease surveillance system with the objective of establishing near real-time baseline estimates of disease trends, and detecting disease outbreaks in a timely manner. This system has proven to perform well, although reporting sites vary in their reporting infrastructure. Therefore, we attempted to test the effect of a lack of monitoring on the performance of reporting sites, and explore the influence of other factors potentially affecting timeliness.

Objective

The objective of this paper is to describe the effect of close monitoring on performance of the electronic disease surveillance system of the Peru Air Force.

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Multiple options (1,2) are available for health care provider organizations to receive assistance in demonstrating compliance with meaningful use requirements for public health reporting (3). A certified EHR solution is a requirement for participation in these programs; vast majority of health care providers do not yet have such a solution. No funding programs are currently available to assist public health agencies, especially local public health departments (4). As a result, most providers and local public health agencies are seemingly left without viable options except spending significantly in a tight budget environment.

Objective

To describe a real-time reportable disease and surveillance solution focused on local public health department needs and compatible with state health departments, regardless of meaningful use certification status of health care providers.

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 Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting.  The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (including SARS) through automated multilingual analysis of internet media sources such as news wires and web pages(www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/media/nr-rp/2004/2004_gphinrmispbk_e.html). An innovative web-based forum (www.RUsick2.msu.edu) collects foodborne illness reports from visitors to a web site and has been used to identify foodborne outbreaks in Michigan (1).   Health-related topics are among the most popular Internet searches. Many individuals experiencing symptoms of illness conduct Internet searches prior to seeking medical attention.  An early site-based study found limited utility to monitoring of Internet queries (2), but recent developments merit re-examination of the potential of internet searches for public health surveillance purposes.

Objective:

To evaluate whether trends in internet searches might provide useful data for public health surveillance.

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The Infectious Disease Society of America’s Emerging Infections Network (EIN) is a sentinel network of over 1,200 practicing infectious disease physicians, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In January 2012, the EIN listserv fielded a member inquiry about treatment recommendations for a complicated polymicrobial wound infection in a traveler returning to the United States from India. The posting led to a member-to-member communication that resulted in shipment of clinical microbiology isolates from one member’s hospital to another’s research laboratory. Molecular evaluation of the clinical isolates uncovered previously undetected carriage of the emerging NDM-1 enzyme in 2 of the Enterobacteriaceae species. Based on this interaction, we built a flexible online surveillance registry (CaseFinder) for infectious disease physicians to report cases of CRE.

Objective

To create a flexible online surveillance system for infectious disease experts to report cases of emerging infectious diseases.

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A mobile phone-based surveillance system to support the rabies control program is currently in use across southern Tanzania and was implemented in Pemba since 2011. The system allows for near real-time reporting of information on: patients with animal bites reporting to health facilities that provide post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) to prevent rabies; suspected rabid animal cases submitted by livestock field officers (LFOs); and details of mass dog vaccination campaigns coordinated through each district livestock office.

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H5N1 virus occurs mainly in birds. It is highly contagious and deadly among them. However, transmission in human is rare. The first and only confirmed case of human infection with avian influenza H5N1 virus in Nigeria was in 2006. Sporadic infection among poultry has been occurring in Nigeria with yearly estimated loss of millions of Dollars. Six Local Government Areas of Oyo State, Nigeria reported confirmed cases of H5N1 among birds. Affected birds were culled and human avian influenza surveillance was instituted.

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The past decade has seen the rise of many new diseases, and the re-emergence of others which were thought to have been brought under control. This is the combined result of the expansion of global trade and travel, the increases in populations of both humans and animals, and environmental changes. As a result, there should be an effective collaboration among different institutions in each country, and close international cooperation with different stakeholders. The MBDS (Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance) cooperation is a self-organized sub-regional network commenced in 2001.

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Introduction Infectious disease surveillance is very important as an element in public health system in the prevention and control of infectious diseases. Results of the Korean National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (KNNDSS) has contributed to the reduction of amount of infectious disease. Nevertheless, the “reporting rate” is continuously being debated.

The KNNDSS classifies 77 infectious diseases into 6 groups: Group I for those requiring immediate control measures; Group II for vaccine-preventable diseases; Group III for diseases that need routine monitoring; Group IV for emerging diseases in Korea; Group V for parasitic infections; and Group VI for disease that need monitoring outbreaks. Group I – VI diseases are monitored by mandatory surveillance system that requires obligatory reporting on infectious diseases ‘without delay’ to a district health center.

The using the National Health Insurance (NHI) claims data is the important source of information for healthcare service research in South Korea, since South Korea achieves universal coverage of its population. In the aspects of data quality and standard, the sixth revision of the Korean Classification of Disease (KCD-6) has been used in Korea since 2011, and 99.9% of healthcare providers use to claims to insurers utilizing Electronic Data Interchange transactions. In this respects, NHI claims data is an opportunity as a supplement for NDDSS data.

In this study, we explored the difference between NNDSS data and NHI claim data and determined opportunity and challenges using NHI data for estimation the magnitude of national infectious disease incidence.

Objective

This study will determine opportunity of using the National Health Insurance (NHI) claims data for supplemental notifiable infectious disease surveillance system at national or regional levels.

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