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NSSP Weekly Technical Updates for 2017
Content Type: Report
This is the technical weekly update report which the project director at the CDC (Mike Coletta) gets from the technical support company (ICF), summarizing the current status of work on the National Syndromic Surveillance (NSS) Platform. -
Infectious Disease Cost Calculator
Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems
"The UPMC Center for Health Security developed the Infectious Disease Cost Calculator (IDCC) to provide new national and global estimates of the economic… read more -
Asyndromic Cluster Detection Consultancy
Content Type: Report
Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Surveillance: Asyndromic Cluster Detection consultancy held June 9-10, 2015 at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Problem Summary A syndrome cannot be… read more -
The Evolution of BioSense: Lessons Learned and Future Directions
Content Type: Journal Article
The BioSense program was launched in 2003 with the aim of establishing a nationwide integrated public health surveillance system for early detection and assessment of potential bioterrorism-related illness. The program has matured over the years… read more -
Using Syndromic Surveillance for All-Hazards Public Health Surveillance: Successes, Challenges, and the Future
Content Type: Journal Article
Fifteen years have passed since the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 called for the establishment of nationwide surveillance and reporting mechanisms to detect bioterrorism-related events. In the… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance Revolution? Public Health Benefits of Modernizing the Emergency Care Patient Health Record in England
Content Type: Journal Article
Emergency medicine is a recognized specialty in the United Kingdom (UK), with formal training and accreditation conducted and governed by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. Health care in the UK is publicly funded and provided by the… read more -
Efficient Surveillance of Childhood Diabetes Using Electronic Health Record Data
Content Type: Abstract
Traditional surveillance methods, such as registries that require manual validation of every diabetes case or questionnaires, are resource intensive and associated with considerable delay in reporting results. An EHR-based surveillance system may be… read more -
Eliciting Disease Data from Wikipedia Articles
Content Type: Abstract
Traditional disease surveillance systems suffer from several disadvantages, including reporting lags and antiquated technology, that have caused a movement towards internet-based disease surveillance systems. Recently, Wikipedia access logs (e.g.,… read more