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  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
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  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … published by the CDC (10, 11). It was designed under guidance from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health …
  • Data and Text Mining in Analysis of the Emergence of H5N1 Virus Strain

    Content Type: Abstract

    OBJECTIVE This paper describes a series of data mining techniques used to gather and analyze and disseminate large amounts of data from numerous sources in English as well as Chinese. The objective of the analysis is to attempt to identify locations… read more
    … simplified Chinese into English. The translated Chinese documents are then made available to a categorization … This process automates the tedious process of organizing documents into logical categories. In this example, our …
  • Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … Plan. http://www.indy.gov/eGov/City/DPS/DHS/Preparedness/ Documents/Appendix%20G-Heat%20Cold%20Plan%202009- …
  • Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    The panelists will present their current technical research using Twitter data for disease surveillance. Presentation topics may include filtering and processing of tweets, as well as the analysis and presentation of findings for surveillance… read more
    … is a set of terms that typically occur within the same documents and a set of documents from which those terms have been extracted as … identified as a representative keyword for some number of documents in the corpus. !   On a short text corpus (such as …
  • Fever Detection in Clinic Visit Notes Using a General Purpose Processor

    Content Type: Abstract

    With increased penetration of clinical information system products and increased interest in clinical data exchange, a variety of clinician’s notes are becoming available for surveillance. Chief complaints have been studied extensively, and… read more
    … and a semantic grammar to parse and encode medical documents. MedLEE creates a finding (e.g., fever) and … L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med …
  • Challenges in adapting an natural language processing system for real-time surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    We are developing a Bayesian surveillance system for realtime surveillance and characterization of outbreaks that incorporates a variety of data elements, including free-text clinical reports. An existing natural language processing (… read more
    … examining sentences causing the errors in separate text documents. We are building a framework to simplify results … a lexicon-building tool to mine synonyms from clinical documents and the UMLS Metathesaurus. Conclusions …
  • Syndromic Surveillance in Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (ISDP) and Pre Hospital Emergency Care in India

    Content Type: Webinar

    Globally, disease surveillance systems suffer from a number of resource constraints. These constraints are more pronounced in developing countries, which bear the greatest burden of disease and where pathogens are more likely to emerge, reemerge,… read more
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