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Public Health Community Platform: A future solution for a modern public health enterprise
Content Type: Webinar
The Public Health Community Platform (PHCP) is a CDC-funded ASTHO project envisioned to provide Universal access to modernized shared resources that efficiently, securely, and collaboratively transform data into action for a healthier nation.… read more -
Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI. -
Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Abstract
Automated disease surveillance systems that analyze data by syndrome categories have been used to look for outbreaks of disease for about 10 years. Most of these systems notify users of increases in the prevalence of reports in syndrome categories… read more -
Enhancing Event Communication in Disease Surveillance: ECC 2.0
Content Type: Abstract
Regional disease surveillance systems allow users the ability to view large amounts of population health information and examine automated alerts that suggest increased disease activity. These systems require users to view and… read more -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more -
Resolving the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Syndrome
Content Type: Abstract
To date, most syndromic surveillance systems rely heavily on complicated statistical algorithms to identify aberrations. The assumption is that when the statistics identify something unusual, follow-up should occur. However, with multiple strata… read more -
Event Communication in a Regional Disease Surveillance System
Content Type: Abstract
Versatile, user-friendly visualization tools are required to organize the wealth of information available to users of large, regional surveillance systems into a coherent view of population health status. Communications … read more -
Structured Information Sharing in Disease Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Abstract
The practice of real-time disease surveillance, sometimes called syndromic surveillance, is widespread at local, state, and national levels. Diseases ignore legal boundaries, so situations frequently arise where it is important… read more