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  • Ebola, Enterovirus, MERS, Novel Flu, and other Challenges for Public Health Surveillance Practitioners

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    Public health practitioners endeavor to expand and refine their syndromic and other advanced surveillance systems that are designed to supplement their existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and… read more
    … existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread … existing laboratory testing and disease surveillance toolkit. While much of the development and widespread …
  • Development of Genomic Surveillance Bioinformatics Modules

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    Whole-genome sequencing of disease-causing organisms provides an unabridged examination of the genetic content of individual pathogen isolates, enabling public health laboratories to benefit from comparative analyses of total genetic content.… read more
    … To this end we have created a modular genomics analysis toolkit that can easily integrate diverse data streams and … To this end we have created a modular genomics analysis toolkit that can easily integrate diverse data streams and …
  • Using SAGES OpenESSENCE for Mass Gathering Events

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    The SAGES (Suite for Automated Global Electronic bioSurveillance) team at the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was approached by the Public Health Division of the Research, Evidence and Information Programme of the Secretariat of… read more
    … the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, the 8th Micronesian … the feasibility of using the SAGES disease surveillance toolkit for two mass gathering events, the 8th Micronesian …
  • Cloud Computing for Syndromic Surveillance

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    Two significant barriers to greater use of syndromic surveillance techniques are computational time and software complexity. Computational time refers to the time for many methods (for example, scan statistics and AMOEBA statistics) to create… read more
    … machines, or images, for the public to use. The GeoViz Toolkit was one of the software packages delivered in this … implied. References 1. Hardisty F, Robinson A. The GeoViz Toolkit: using component- oriented coordination methods to … The spatiotemporal clustering algorithms in the GeoViz Toolkit, as well as the multiple view visualizations, are …
  • Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework

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    Most public health workers could reach agreement on the general functions and operations regarding public health’s traditional operations, such as food safety inspections, outbreak investigations, or immunization clinics. However, there is much less… read more
    … N. PREPARE for Pandemic Influenza: A Quality Improvement Toolkit; RAND Health; 2008:217. Preparedness business …
  • The Potential of Syndromic Surveillance of Gastrointestinal Illness in the Community for Early Warning of Institutional Gastroenteritis Outbreaks

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    In 2004, the NSW Public Health Real-time Emergency Department Surveillance System operating in and around Sydney, Australia signalled a large-scale increase in Emergency Department (ED) visits for gastrointestinal illness (GI). A subsequent… read more
    … surveillance to the routine public health surveillance toolkit. The proportion of outbreaks with a known organism …
  • Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification

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    This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.
    … was implemented using the open-source Stan- ford NLP toolkit. The presence or absence of all fre- quently …
  • Real-time, reusable, dynamic public health surveillance

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    The resources available in most public health departments are limited. Access to trained technical personnel and stateof-the-art computing resources are also lacking. Customizable off-the-shelf systems contribute only to creation of information… read more
    … interesting possibilities to expand this surveillance toolkit. This is an Open Access article distributed under …