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Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina
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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is the early event detection system that serves public health users across North Carolina. One important data source for this system is North… read more… results of each report were exported into an electronic document, which was emailed to staff at the DPH. This report … -
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… reports in NC DETECT allow epidemi- ologists to document the follow-up conducted on syndrome-based … as laboratory data. New interfaces will allow users to document lab results about respiratory illnesses, in- … users, although enhancements are needed to allow users to document surveillance efforts using non-NC DETECT data … -
Securing protected health information in NC DETECT
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NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more… functionality which allows authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. … -
Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition
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In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more… derived case definition terms from the consensus document text description of smallpox and modified these … -
Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance
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NC DETECT receives data on at least a daily basis from five data sources: emergency departments (ED), the statewide poison center (CPC), the statewide EMS data collection system, a regional wildlife center and laboratories from the NC State College… read more… in the new system allowing authorized users to document signals and keep track of signal investigations. …