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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 -
CDCPlot: an Application for Viewing Weekly CDC MMWR Disease Count Data
Content Type: Abstract
The CDC provides data on incidences of diseases on its website (https://data.cdc.gov/). Data is available at national, regional, and state levels, and is uploaded to the CDC’s website on a weekly basis. The CDCPlot web application (available at… read more -
Preliminary Look into the ICD9/10 Transition Impact on Public Health Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
On October 1, 2015, the number of ICD codes will expand from 14,000 in version 9 to 68,000 in version 10. The new code set will increase the specificity of reporting, allowing more information to be conveyed in a single code. It is anticipated that… read more -
Use of Electronic Health Records to Determine the Impact of Ebola Screening
Content Type: Abstract
Since the largest epidemic of Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) in recorded history began in Guinea in December 2013, the epidemic has spread to neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra Leone resulting in an estimation of over 27,000 total cases… read more -
Exploring Chief Complaint Word Co-occurence Visualizations
Content Type: Webinar
Presented October 28, 2016. We are going to briefly explore the tidytext, widyr, and flexdashboard packages to analyze word co-occurrence, look at ngrams, and then visualize the results in word network graphs. Looking at your data in this way can… read more -
New Master Mapping Reference Table (MMRT) to Assist ICD-10 Transition for Syndromic Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
As of October 1, 2015, all HIPAA covered entities transition from the use of International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD-9-CM) to version 10 (ICD-10-CM/PCS). Many Public Health surveillance entities receive, interpret, analyze, and… read more -
Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool
Content Type: Abstract
HealthMap collects and aggregates information from online sources to generate outbreak alerts based on disease and geographic location. This project will assess the timeliness and sensitivity of HealthMap based on outbreak posts from EpiCom, the… read more -
Integration of Reported and Syndromic Disease System Information
Content Type: Webinar
The March 2010 webinar of the ISDS Public Health Practice Committee gave an overview regarding how Florida is incorporating visualizations of their reportable disease data into their syndromic surveillance system. The presentation was followed by a… read more