TY - JOUR AU - Hopkins, Richard AU - Gunn, Julia AU - Berezowski, John AU - Burkom, Howard PY - 2017/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - A practitioner-driven research agenda for syndromic surveillance JF - Online Journal of Public Health Informatics JA - OJPHI VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Population Health Analysis of Patient-Centered, Health System Outcomes DO - 10.5210/ojphi.v9i1.7762 UR - https://ojphi.org/ojs/index.php/ojphi/article/view/7762 SP - AB - <div style="left: 79.2px; top: 308.667px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.08071);" data-canvas-width="56.124933333333345">Objective</div><div style="left: 92.4px; top: 321.824px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.979305);" data-canvas-width="332.5720200000001">To obtain feedback and seek future directions for an ISDS initiative</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 336.491px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01446);" data-canvas-width="346.81019999999995">to establish and update research questions in Informatics, Analytics,</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 351.157px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01246);" data-canvas-width="346.8027200000002">Communications, and Systems Research with the greatest perceived</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 365.824px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00185);" data-canvas-width="215.69826666666677">impact for improving surveillance practice.</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 393.734px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(1.11702);" data-canvas-width="72.71806666666667">Introduction</div><div style="left: 92.4px; top: 406.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00055);" data-canvas-width="335.26606666666663">Over the past fifteen years, syndromic surveillance (SyS) has</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 421.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05166);" data-canvas-width="114.54373333333332">evolved from a set of</div><div style="left: 193.797px; top: 421.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.05935);" data-canvas-width="34.782">ad hoc</div><div style="left: 228.595px; top: 421.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03939);" data-canvas-width="197.7088666666667">methods used mostly in post-disaster</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 436.224px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.99497);" data-canvas-width="346.0671866666666">settings, then expanded with broad support and development because</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 450.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00272);" data-canvas-width="348.4782400000003">of bioterrorism concerns, and subsequently evolved to a mature</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 465.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.99983);" data-canvas-width="348.490706666667">technology that runs continuously to detect and monitor a wide</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 480.224px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.999134);" data-canvas-width="348.5480533333333">range of health issues. Continued enhancements needed to meet</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 494.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.991192);" data-canvas-width="348.10673333333324">the challenges of novel health threats with increasingly complex</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 509.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01891);" data-canvas-width="348.7051333333333">information sources will require technical advances focused on</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 524.224px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00146);" data-canvas-width="156.4940666666667">day-to-day public health needs.</div><div style="left: 92.4px; top: 538.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02181);" data-canvas-width="333.7925066666667">Since its formation in 2005, the International Society for Disease</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 553.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00355);" data-canvas-width="348.41590666666696">Surveillance (ISDS) has sought to clarify and coordinate global</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 568.224px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.9727);" data-canvas-width="347.78883333333323">priorities in surveillance research. As part of a practitioner-driven</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 582.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03232);" data-canvas-width="347.27146666666664">initiative to identify current research priorities in SyS, ISDS polled</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 597.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.990856);" data-canvas-width="345.9574800000001">its members about capabilities needed by SyS practitioners that could</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 612.224px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02673);" data-canvas-width="346.98224">be improved as a result of research efforts. A taskforce of the ISDS</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 626.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.990845);" data-canvas-width="345.90387333333337">Research Committee, consisting of national and global subject matter</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 641.557px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03491);" data-canvas-width="346.9710199999998">experts (SMEs) in SyS and ISDS professional staff, carried out the</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 656.224px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.996377);" data-canvas-width="346.17439999999976">project. This panel will discuss the results and the preferred means to</div><div style="left: 79.2px; top: 670.891px; font-size: 12.4667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00188);" data-canvas-width="256.56399999999996">determine and communicate priorities in the future.</div> ER -