The mission of the ISDS TCC is to bridge the gap between the analytic needs of public health practitioners and the expertise of researchers from other fields for the enhancement of disease surveillance, including situational awareness of chronic as well as infectious threats and follow-up activities such as case linkage and contact tracing. Committee activities to achieve this mission are identifying practical use cases, refining technical specifications in open forums, obtaining benchmark datasets for controlled dissemination, validating candidate methods, and sharing method documentation. In its first 2 years, the TCC has worked on three use cases and assisted with development of data use agreements to permit posting of benchmark datasets, http://www.syndromic.org/ communities/technical-conventions. Recent polling of the Biosense User Group indicated widespread interest in developing additional use cases. The proposed panel is intended to focus on practical applications of common interest, refine the use case development and dissemination process, and foster global interest in this process.
Objective
The main objective is to broaden the collection of use cases developed by the ISDS Technical Conventions Committee (TCC) to enhance effective collaboration between public health practice and analyst researchers in various disciplines and institutions. Panellists will present and motivate use case concepts including requirements for practical solution methods. Component objectives are to refine the presented use cases and to stimulate formation of new ones at local, state, and national levels.