An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods

Authors

  • Michael Coletta National Association of County and City Health Officials
  • Howard Burkom Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
  • Jeffrey Johnson San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency
  • Wendy Chapman University of California, San Diego

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4478

Abstract

The panel will seek consensus for a plan to establish standards for technical analysis of biosurveillance data. The scope of a conventions group could include specification of practical problems, statistical monitoring and follow-up methods, and alternative use applications such as clinical decision support. A primary goal is removal of obstacles to relevant, replicable research and to direct collaboration between public health practitioners and the academic community.

Author Biographies

Michael Coletta, National Association of County and City Health Officials

Michael Coletta has worked at the state level in GA and VA building enhanced surveillance capabilities. He served as chair of the ISDS workgroup charged with defining syndromic surveillance requirements for meaningful use. As staff at NACCHO, Michael is supporting both the informatics and the biosurveillance workgroups. Each of these workgroups is focused on bringing all of public health around to syndromic surveillance and informatics concepts.

Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory

Howard Burkom is a project manager and researcher within the disease surveillance initiative of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. He is also a statistical consultant to the Biosense team at CDC, collaborating on system improvements and with health departments on public health applications. An elected member of the ISDS Board Of Directors for 7 years, He has worked exclusively in biosurveillance since 2000, adapting analytic methods from various scientific disciplines for disease monitoring systems.

Jeffrey Johnson, San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency

Jeffrey Johnson is a Senior Epidemiologist for the County of San Diego Health & Human Services Agency, Public Health Services. He directs a team of staff who manage several surveillance systems and electronic lab reporting interfaces. He also has experience stablishing just in time surveillance capacity for natural disasters, special events and serves on various surveillance workgroups at the state and national level. He is currrently assisting in the design and development of a ONC funded health information exchange.

Wendy Chapman, University of California, San Diego

After studying linguistics, Wendy Chapman received her PhD in Medical Informatics with a research focus in natural language processing (NLP). Her work has mainly addressed extraction of information from clinical reports, including identifying evidence of acute bacterial pneumonia from chest radiography reports and evidence of conditions relevant to detecting disease outbreaks from emergency department reports. She leads the American Medical Informatics Association NLP Working Group. Dr. Chapman is particularly interested in creating infrastructure and tools to allow sharing and collaboration on biomedical data.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Coletta, M., Burkom, H., Johnson, J., & Chapman, W. (2013). An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4478

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Panel Presentations