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  • Introduction to Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented December 8, 2015 Dr. Richard S. Hopkins presented the following slides as part of the ISDS Intro to BioSurveillance Workshop at the 2015 ISDS Annual Conference in Denver, Colorado. This presentation demonstrates… read more
    … disease? Are these acceptable to the community? What guidance can we give clinicians about how to best diagnose …
  • Meaningful Use Business Process Mapping Questionnaire

    Content Type: Form

    The survey, developed by the ISDS Meaningful Use Business Process Mapping Subgroup, was designed to facilitate conversations between health care facilities and public health departments before and during Meaningful Use implementation and… read more
    … Process Mapping Questionnaire 46. Do you have a mapping document you can share with the public health authority? Yes … Data Element Information 46. Do you have a mapping document you can share with the public health authority? 47. …
  • Enhancing Nebraska's Rabies Surveillance using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE

    Content Type: Case Study

    Accurate and timely reporting of animal rabies test results and potential human exposures is necessary to guide case management and define rabies epidemiology. Accordingly, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) collaborated with… read more
    … information. Readily accessible data are now available to document and justify both economic and health benefits of …
  • Dengue Outbreak in Punjab, Pakistan, 2011; Foundation for One Health Approach

    Content Type: Case Study

    During  2011, dengue fever emerged as a serious public health problem in Punjab, Pakistan. This crisis highlighted gaping holes in the health system. It was realized that the present system is unlikely to have the capacity in responding to an… read more
    … and town dengue control committees were made as per the guidance of World Health Organizations to the DOH, Punjab. …
  • Use of syndromic surveillance in decision making during the H1N1 pandemic in Ontario, Canada

    Content Type: Abstract

    For public health surveillance to achieve its desired purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality, surveillance data must be linked to public health response. While there is evidence of the growing popularity of syndromic surveillance (1,2), the… read more
    … rather vaccine availability and ministerial guidance acted as drivers for these decisions. Conclusions …
  • Using cKASS to facilitate knowledge authoring and sharing for syndromic surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Mining text for real-time syndromic surveillance usually requires a comprehensive knowledge base (KB) which contains detailed information about concepts relevant to the domain, such as disease names, symptoms, drugs, and radiology findings. Two such… read more
    … ontology. In: Proc. 3rd International Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI), Bled, …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 1

    Content Type: Report

    Surveillance professionals from six states and one local public health agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 1 planned and attended the 2-day Workshop. Workshop attendees elected to explore how data sharing can… read more
    … discussion  Data standards/quality o Create metadata document o Develop standard classifiers o Documentation of …  worked  with  the  Workshop  facilitator  to   document  the  benefits,  barriers,  and  solutions  to …  and  public  health   business  practices.   • Document  and  describe  Workshop  outputs  related  to …
  • Utilization of Syndromic Surveillance with Multiple Data Sources to Enhance Public Health Response

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the event of a large-scale public health crisis, successfully detecting and assessing health threats and monitoring population health status over a sustained period of time is likely to require integration of information from multiple… read more
    … source of information used to provide health protection guidance to the public was air quality data, not human … /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents best suited for high-quality prepress printing. …