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  • Facilitating Cross-Sectoral Collaboration Through One Health Country-Level Work Groups

    Content Type: Case Study

    Zoonotic diseases compose a large proportion of the disease burden faced by African countries (e.g. Ebola). A One Health approach to disease control has been embraced across the continent, yet public health and veterinary surveillance systems in… read more
    … continued technical collaboration, and WHO/AFRO for their guidance and support of these efforts. Thank you to the …
  • Using R Shiny to Share Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented November 21, 2017. This presentation covers how the shiny package can complement traditional surveillance reporting through online, interactive applications. Kelley demonstrates a shiny application Cook County is currently… read more
    … Github here:  https://github.com/kb230557/Flu_Shiny_App . Document R Group_Shiny Presentation.pptx … in excel spreadsheets Excel graphs pasted into a Word document Saved as a PDF and emailed to our flu listserv on …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … involved with the program have been able to monitor and document that over 99% of all possible data are incorporated …
  • Kansas Uses Syndromic Surveillance Data to Educate the Public and Providers about Rabies

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Rabies is caused by a virus spread to people from the saliva and neural tissue of infected animals. The most common mode of transmission is through the bite of a rabid animal; however, rabies can be transmitted through non-bite exposures (e.g.,… read more
    … about rabies—specifically, exposure to bats. LDCHD staff document disease investigations, animal complaints, and food … of Environment and Health KDHE.Syndromic@ks.gov Document NSSP-Success-Story-Rabies.pdf Submitted by elamb on … about rabies—specifically, exposure to bats. LDCHD staff document disease investigations, animal complaints, and food …
  • Malaria: A New Model for Disease Eradication

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Defines the current state of impact of malaria. positioning the disease as leading cause of death by disease worldwide. In last 12 years, seven million lives have been saved with a reduction of 60% in fatalities.… read more
    … Edlund Martin Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - 12:00 Document Malaria_as_New_Modelfor_Disease_Eradication.docx … with the Government of Orissa to analyze and optimize document and disseminate this program and encourage adoption …
  • Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) Vendor Analysis

    Content Type: Report

    Public health agencies have to work with a several disparate systems, a lack of robust reporting capabilities, and a lack of standardized surveillance, along with inherent funding challenges. The purpose of this analysis is to help state and local… read more
    … Health Informatics Institute welcomes comments on this document and related issues. Please send all correspondence … meet the needs • Toolkit: Vendor Analysis section of this document Prepare • Conduct a Request for Proposal exercise • … an external system        1.1.93 Allow user to document patient/contact treatment details and diagnostics  …
  • School Disease Transmission: Has the time come for coordination between monitors and modelers?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Guoyan Zhang and Anthony Llau, Miami-Dade County Health Department, have been instrumental in developing the School-Based Absentee Surveillance System (SBASS), which uses school absentee data to identify outbreaks as part of syndromic surveillance.… read more
    … days, early release days, holidays and other events as a guidance to holidays and other events as a guidance to perform data analysis. Special events such as … [cited 2010 Jul 22]. http://www.myflusafety.com/SwineFlu/documents/RevisedH1N1 ClinicianGuidance2010Jan.pdf …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Features Update

    Content Type: Webinar

    This Webinar will help you learn about new and upcoming BioSense 2.0 features and how they can enhance your user experience. Nabarun Dasgupta of the BioSense Redesign Team will review new BioSense functionalities and services as well as discuss how… read more
    … Team ( more information about this webinar series ) Document Biosense_Webinar_Slides.pdf Document Biosense_Features_Update_Qa.pdf Document Bs2webinar_Features_Update_Webinar_Report.pdf …   I  think  it's  more  clearly  described  in  the  document.  Basically,  there  are  some   syndromes  that …