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  • North Texas School Health Surveillance: First-Year Progress and Next Steps

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    Recognizing the threat of pandemic influenza and new or emerging disease such as SARS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that schools work in partnership with their local health departments “to develop a surveillance… read more
    … County Public Health (TCPH) epidemiologists, who can use ESSENCE1 to analyze the data. The projectís ongoing goal is … Epidemics, developed by the John Hopkins APL, at: http://essence.jhuapl.edu/ESSENCE/. 2. CDC. Prevention and Control …
  • A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice

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    Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more
    … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past six years, and will describe the … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past 6 years and will describe the …