Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013) | Online Journal of Public Health Informatics

Editorial

Amy Ising

Editorial: 2012 ISDS Conference Proceedings

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Oral Presentations: Border Health/ Multi-jurisdictional Health

Alina Deshpande, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, William B. Daniel, Eric N. Generous, Andrea Hengartner, Kristen Margevicius, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe

A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance

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Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Sarah Marikos, Karen Ferran

A Binational Influenza Surveillance Network - California/Baja California

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Orion McCotter, Frank Vanskike, Kacey Ernst, Ken Komatsu, Harold Margolis, Stephen Waterman, Laura Tippit, Kay Tomashek, Anne Wertheimer, Sonia Montiel, Catherine Golenko, Elizabeth Hunsperger

Enhancing Surveillance for Arboviral Infections in the Arizona Border Region

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Damaris Padin, Anthony Hawksworth, Peter Kammerer, Erin McDonough, Gary Brice

Effectiveness of the 2011-12 Influenza Vaccine: Data from US Military Dependents and US-Mexico Border Civilians.

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Oral Presentations: Analytical Methods - Bayesian

Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Liane Ramac-Thomas, Christopher Cuellar, Vivian Hung

Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data

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Michael Ludkovski, Junjing Lin

Sequential Bayesian Inference for Detection and Response to Seasonal Epidemics

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Jarad Niemi, Michael Ludkovski

Tau-leaped Particle Learning

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Jialan Que, Fu-Chiang Tsui

Modeling Baseline Shifts in Multivariate Disease Outbreak Detection

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Oral Presentations: Cluster Detection

Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Carla Winston, Julie Pavlin, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy

Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations

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Luiz H. Duczmal, Alexandre C. L. Almeida, Fabio R. da Silva, Martin Kulldorff

Multiple Source Spatial Cluster Detection Through Multi-criteria Analysis

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Sabino J. Ferreira, Francisco S. Oliveira, Ricardo Tavares, Flavio R. Moura

Using the Flow of People in Cluster Detection and Inference

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Meichun Li, Wayne Loschen, Lana Deyneka, Howard Burkom, Amy Ising, Anna Waller

Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records

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Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider

Searching for Complex Patterns Using Disjunctive Anomaly Detection

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Skyler Speakman, Yating Zhang, Daniel B. Neill

Tracking Dynamic Water-borne Outbreaks with Temporal Consistency Constraints

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Oral Presentations: Data Quality and Underlying Patterns in Data Streams

Shaun Grannis, Brian Dixon, Yuni Xia, Jianmin Wu

Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality

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Wayne Loschen, Aaron Kite-Powell

Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System

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Justin Manjourides, Ted Cohen, Caroline Jeffery, Marcello Pagano

Disease Mapping with Spatially Uncertain Data

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Vipul Raheja, K. S. Rajan

Extraction of Disease Occurrence Patterns Using MiSTIC: Salmonellosis in Florida

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Tera Reynolds, Ian Painter, Laura Streichert

Data Quality: A Systematic Review of the Biosurveillance Literature

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Jessica Sell, Robert Mathes, Marc Paladini

Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance

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Oral Presentations: Disease Surveillance Methods

Carrie Eggers, Aaron Kite-Powell, Janet Hamilton

Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks

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Andrew Fine, Victor Nizet, Kenneth Mandl

A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment

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Carol A. Gotway Crawford, Catherine A. Okoro, Haci M. Akcin, Satvinder Dhingra

An Experimental Study Using Opt-in Internet Panel Surveys for Behavioral Health Surveillance

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Molly Leecaster, Warren Pettey, Damon Toth, Jeanette Rainey, Amra Uzicanin, Matthew Samore

A Piece of the Public Health Surveillance Puzzle: Social Contacts among School-Aged Children

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Reena Mahajan, Anne C. Moorman, Stephen J. Liu, Loralee Rupp, Monina Klevens, (CHeCS) for the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Investigators

The Use of the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) Coding in Identifying Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Health System Data: Implications for Surveillance

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James M. Wilson, Bonnie Koehler, Kathleen Sramek, Treve Henwood

The Black Canyon Forecast Station: Experiences And Lessons Learned

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Oral Presentations: Electronic Health Records

Donald Curtis, Scott Weissman, Dimitri Drekonja, Susan Beekmann, Benjamin Buckmaster, John Lynch, April Abbott, Ferric Fang, Philip Polgreen

CaseFinder: A Flexible Real-time Online Surveillance Registry for Infectious Disease Physicians to Report Cases of Carbapenem-resistant <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i> (CRE)

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Richard F. Davies, Jason Morin, Ramanjot S. Bhatia, Lambertus de Bruijn

A System for Surveillance Directly from the EMR

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Joseph R. Egger, Brooks Lowe, Erica Johnson, Randy Durbin, Erica Griffin, Sanjaya Dhakal, Achintya Dey, Sam Groseclose

Evaluation of Clinical and Administrative Data to Augment Public Health Surveillance

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Peter Hicks, Henry Rolka, Mark Wooster, Lynette Brammer

Processing of Novel Electronic Health Data to Support Public Health Surveillance

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Kenneth D. Mandl

SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance

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Rebecca Zwickl, Charles Ishikawa, Laura C. Streichert

Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Using Novel Clinical Data Sources

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Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Evaluation and Practice

David Meurer, James Talbot

Use of a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System to Improve Influenza Like Illness Screening and Documentation in Emergency Departments during the H1N1 Pandemic

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Patricia Schirmer, Carla Winston, Russell Ryono, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Gina Oda, Mark Holodniy

Does Antimicrobial Prescription Data Improve Influenza Surveillance in VA?

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Kathleen Stigi, Atar Baer, Kathy Lofy

Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet)

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Fei Wu, Amy Kelsey

Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri

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Hongzhang Zheng, Tariq Siddiqui, Sylvain DeLisle

Automated Surveillance of Outpatients with Pneumonia: A Performance Evaluation

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Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Research

Howard S. Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Carla Winston, Julie Pavlin, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy

Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems

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Andrea F. Dugas, Mehdi Jalalpour, Yulia Gel, Scott Levin, Fred Torcaso, Takeru Igusa, Richard Rothman

Influenza Forecasting with Google Flu Trends

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Arturo Lopez Pineda, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Shyam Visweswaran, Gregory F. Cooper

Detection of Patients with Influenza Syndrome Using Machine-Learning Models Learned from Emergency Department Reports

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Kathryn Morrison, Yanyu Xiao, Seyed Moghadas, David Buckeridge

Using Surveillance Data to Identify Risk Factors for Severe H1N1 in First Nations

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Avinash Patwardhan, David Lorber

Comparing Prescription Sales, Google Trends and CDC Data as Flu Activity Indicators

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Oral Presentations: Information Sharing & Partnerships

Judy Akkina, Wolf Weber, Lisa Becton

Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance

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Anna Grigoryan, Carmen Clarke, Lyudmila Zueva, Tetyana Chumachenko, Edmond F. Maes, Bonnie Smoak

The Epidemiologic Vocabulary of the West and the Former Soviet Union: Different Sides of the Same Science

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Ikechi Konkwo, Robert G. Harmon, William C. Livingood, Thomas Bryant III, Saad Zaheer

A Health Department's Collaborative Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building

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Wayne Loschen, Rekha Holtry, Kalman Hazins, Sheryl Happel Lewis

Sharing Public Health Information with Non-Public Health Partners

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Dina B. Passman, Aaron Kite-Powell, Dara Spector, Wayne Loschen, Barry Harp, Aaron Chern, Janet Hamilton, Cary Eggers, Joseph Lombardo

Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness

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Tera Reynolds, Katie Suda, Blaine Reeder, William Storm, Al Ozonoff, Howard Burkom

Collaboration for Improved Disease Surveillance Literature Review

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Oral Presentations: Meaningful Use

Hwa-Gan Chang, Charlene Weng, Charlie DiDonato, Dave DiCesare, Jian-Hua Chen, Debra Blog

Evaluation of Emergency Department Data Quality following PHIN Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide

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Brian E. Dixon, Jason A. Siegel, Tanya V. Oemig, Shaun J. Grannis

Towards Interoperability for Public Health Surveillance: Experiences from Two States

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Brian E. Dixon, Roland E. Gamache, Shaun J. Grannis

Towards Estimation of Electronic Laboratory Reporting Volumes in a Meaningful Use World

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Geraldine Johnson, Charles Ishikawa, Rebecca Zwickl, Maiko Minami, Taha Kass-Hout, Laura Streichert

Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data

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Wayne Loschen, William Stephens, Taha Kass-Hout, Miles Stewart, Dave Heinbaugh, Joseph Lombardo

Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

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Miles Stewart, Wayne Loschen, Taha Kass-Hout

Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

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Oral Presentations: Novel Uses of Syndromic Data

Jessica Athens

Can We Use Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Primary Care Visits to NYC EDs?

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Howard Burkom, Sherry Burrer, Laurie Barker, Valerie Robison, Peter Hicks, Amy Ising

Use of Syndromic Data to Determine Oral Health Visit Burden on Emergency Departments

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Sherry Burrer, Howard Burkom, Christopher Okunseri, Laurie Barker, Valerie Robison

Nontraumatic Oral Health Classification for Alternative Use of Syndromic Data

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Achintya N. Dey, Anna Grigoryan, Soyoun Park, Stephen Benoit, Taha Kass-Hout

Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011

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Steven J. Lippmann, Karin B. Yeatts, Anna Waller, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Debbie Travers, Morris Weinberger, James F. Donohue

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Larissa May, Marcus Rennick, Leah Gustafson, Julia Gunn

A Syndromic Approach to Emergency Department Surveillance for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

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Oral Presentations: Social and News Media

Chi Bahk, David Scales, Sumiko Mekaru, John S. Brownstein, Clark Freifeld

MoH+: A Global, Integrated, and Automated View of Official Outbreak Reporting

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David Bui, Sumiko Mekaru, Clark Freifeld, John S. Brownstein

Development of a Vietnamese Language Outbreak Mapping and Surveillance System

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Jacqueline S. Coberly, Clayton R. Fink, Eugene Elbert, In-Kyu Yoon, John M. Velasco, Agnes Tomayo, V. Roque, S. Ygano, Durinda Macasoco, Sheri Lewis

Tweeting Fever: Are Tweet Extracts a Valid Surrogate Data Source for Dengue Fever?

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Gwendolyn Gillingham, Michael A. Conway, Wendy W. Chapman, Michael B. Casale, Kathryn B. Pettigrew

#wheezing: A Content Analysis of Asthma-Related Tweets

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Mark Myslín, Shu-Hong Zhu, Michael Conway

Content Analysis of Tobacco-related Twitter Posts

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Jennifer Stoll, Richard Quartarone, Miguel Torres-Urquidy

Framing the Use of Social Media Tools in Public Health

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Oral Presentations: Surveillance during Mass Gatherings and Outbreaks

David Atrubin, Michael Wiese, Rebecca Snider, Kiley Workman, Warren McDougle

Enhanced Disease Surveillance during the 2012 Republican National Convention, Tampa, FL

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Erin E. Austin, Jun Yang, Tim Powell

Using GI Syndrome Data as an Early Warning Tool for Norovirus Outbreak Activity

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Stephanie David, Jenna Burton, Chris Chadwick, Rebecca Katz

State Foodborne Illness Surveillance and Response Laws: Compilation and Analysis

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Carrie Eggers, Dina Passman, Aaron Chern, Dara Spector, Aaron Kite-Powell, Tim Davis, Wayne Loschen, Joe Lombardo, Douglas Char, Janet Hamilton

Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC

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Esther Munene, S. Mottice, J. Reid

Evaluating a Social Network Analytic Tool to Support Outbreak Management and Contact Tracing in an Outbreak of Pertussis

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Megan Patel, Enyinnaya Adighibe, Joseph Lombardo, Wayne Loschen, Miles Stewart, Michael O. Vernon

Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events

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Oral Presentations: Syndrome Development & Validation & Natural Language Processing

Sylvain DeLisle, Tariq Siddiqui, Adi Gundlapalli, Matthew Samore, Leonard D'Avolio

Computerized Text Analysis to Enhance Automated Pneumonia Detection

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Adi Gundlapalli, Guy Divita, Marjorie Carter, Shuying Shen, Miland Palmer, Tyler Forbush, Brett South, Andrew Redd, Brian Sauer, Matthew Samore

Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities

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Julio C. Silva, Shital C. Shah, Dino P. Rumoro, Marilyn M. Hallock, Gillian S. Gibbs, Michael J. Waddell

A Novel Syndrome Definition Validation Approach for Rarely Occurring Diseases

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Qi Zhao, Fuqiang Yang, Lars Palm, Hui Yuan, Weirong Yan, Biao Xu

The Distribution of Infectious Related Symptoms in an Internet-based Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China

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Oral Presentations: System Descriptions & Evaluations

Tom Andersson, Pär Bjelkmar, Anette Hulth, Johan Lindh, Stephan Stenmark, Mikael Widerström

Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation

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Steven Bennett, Teresa Quitugua

New Strategy and Innovative Projects at the National Biosurveillance Integration Center

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Ngozi Erondu, Betiel Hadgu Haile, Lisa Ferland, Meeyoung Park, Affan Shaikh, Heather Meeks, Scott JN McNabb

Identification and Assessment of Public Health Surveillance Gaps under the IHR (2005)

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Ruth K. Nassali, Arthur Mpimbaza, Stella Kakeeto, Asadu Sserwanga, Fred Kizito, Denis Rubahika, Melody Miles, Michelle Chang, Grant Dorsey, Moses Kamya

Malaria Trends in Six Outpatient Sites in Uganda, 2008 - 2011

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Donald Olson, Kevin Konty, Rob Mathes, Marc Paladini

Syndromic Surveillance from a Local Perspective: A Review of the Literature

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Erika Samoff, Mary T. Fangman, Amy Ising, Lana Deyneka, Anna E. Waller

Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Systems to Increase Value to Local Health Departments

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Oral Presentations: System Resources and Assessment

Olympia Anderson, Miguel Torres-Urquidy

Using Cultural Modeling to Inform a NEDSS-Compatible System Functionality Evaluation

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Ralph J. Coates, Kathleen Gallagher

Use of BioSense for Rapid Assessment of the Safety of Medical Countermeasures

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Timothy Dasey, Heyley Davison Reynolds, Nancy Nurthen, Christopher Kiley, John Silva

Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) Workflow Analysis

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Biao Xu, Qi Zhao, Huijian Cheng, Tao Tao, Yipin Zhu, Miao Yu, Hui Yuan

The Organizational Structures and Human Resources Allocation of Infectious Disease Surveillance System in Rural China

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Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal

Max Sousa de Lima, Luiz H. Duczmal, Leticia P. Pinto

Spatial Scan Statistics for Models with Excess Zeros and Overdispersion

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Yevgeniy Elbert, Vivian Hung, Howard Burkom

Category-Specific Comparison of Univariate Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance Decision Support

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Nastaran Jafarpour, Doina Precup, David Buckeridge

Determinants of Outbreak Detection Performance

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Daniel B. Neill, Tarun Kumar

Fast Multidimensional Subset Scan for Outbreak Detection and Characterization

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Xiaoxiao Song, Tao Tao, Qi Zhao, Fuqiang Yang, Palm Lars, Diwan Vinod, Hui Yuan, Biao Xu

Applying Zero-inflated Mixed Model to School Absenteeism Surveillance in Rural China

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Oral Presentations: Weather, Environmental, and Vector-borne

Chrissy Dangel, Steven C. Allgeier, Darcy Gibbons, Adam Haas

Public Health Surveillance in Pilot Drinking Water Contamination Warning Systems

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Rebecca T. Gluskin, Mauricio Santillana, John S. Brownstein

Using Google Dengue Trends to Estimate Climate Effects in Mexico

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Jeffrey Johnson, Michele Ginsberg, Nancy French, Brian Thelen, Benjamin Koziol

Use of Syndromic Surveillance Information for Expanded Assessment of Wildfire Disaster

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Royal K. Law, Colleen Martin, Alvin Bronstein, Arthur Chang, Joshua Schier

Surveillance for Radiation-Related Exposures Reported to the National Poison Data System

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Kristen Soto, Jaime Krasnitski, Therese Rabatsky-Ehr, Matthew Cartter

When it Rains it Pours: Real-time Situational Awareness for Two Weather Emergencies in Connecticut

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Panel Presentations

James Buehler, Laura Conn, Carol Crawford, Kathleen Gallagher

Update from CDC's Public Health Surveillance & Informatics Program Office (PHSIPO)

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Michael Coletta, Howard Burkom, Jeffrey Johnson, Wendy Chapman

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

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Michael Coletta, Nikolay Lipskiy, David Birnbaum, John Abellera

S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance

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Royal K. Law, Josh Schier, Jay Schauben, Katherine Wheeler, Prakash Mulay

Poison Center Data for Public Health Surveillance: Poison Center and Public Health Perspectives

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Poster Presentations

Karen H. Pugh, Amy Kelsey, Rebecca Tominack

Comparing Syndromic Surveillance and Poison Center Data for Snake Bites in Missouri

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Cynthia A. Lucero-Obusan, Carla A. Winston, Patricia L. Schirmer, Gina Oda, Anoshiravan Mostaghimi, Mark Holodniy

Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System

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Kylius Wilkins, Bruce Akey, Belinda Thompson, Daryl Nydam

Syndromic Surveillance at the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory

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Brian E. Dixon, Roland E. Gamache, Shaun J. Grannis

State and Local Health Agency Engagement in HIE: A Cross-Sectional Survey

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Ross Maciejewski, Shehjad Afzal, Adam J. Fairfield, Arif Ghafoor, David S. Ebert, Naeem Ayyaz, Maaz Ahmed

Enabling Syndromic Surveillance in Pakistan

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Doyo G. Enki, Angela Noufaily, C. P. Farrington, Paul H. Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, André Charlett, Chris Lane

Statistical Models for Biosurveillance of Multiple Organisms

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Ta-Chien Chan, Rung-Hung Chen, Chwan-Chuen King

Increasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases

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Stanislav V. Kazakov, Alexey V. Burdakov, Kenes S. Ospanov, Aizhan S. Esmagambetova, Andrey O. Ukharov, Veronika P. Sadovskaya, Umirbek B. Usenov

EIDSS Application for CCHF Foci Activity Epi-Analysis and Prediction in Kazakhstan

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Aishatu B. Gubio, Saka J. Muhammad, Aisha Mamman, Ado Zakari, Oladayo Biya

Co-morbidity Factors Associated with Influenza in Nigeria

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Tao Tao, Qi Zhao, Huijian Cheng, Lars Palm, Xin Lu, Hui Yuan, Xiaoxiao Song, Biao Xu

Use of Control Bar Matrix for Outbreak Detection in Syndromic Surveillance System

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John P. Jasek, Nicole Hosseinipour, Talia Rubin, Ramona Lall

Using Syndromic Emergency Department Data to Augment Oral Health Surveillance

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Kirsten McCabe, Lauren Castro, Mac Brown, William Daniel, Eric Nick Generous, Kristen Margevicius, Alina Deshpande

The Surveillance Window - Contextualizing Data Streams

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Jessica Sell, Alyssa Wong

A Survey of Data Recording Procedures at New York City Emergency Departments

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Kathryn Morrison, Katia Charland, Anya Okhmatovskaia, David Buckeridge

A Framework for Detecting and Classifying Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Disease

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Lydia Drumright, Simon Frost, Mike Catchpole, John Harrison, Mark Atkins, Penny Parker, Alex J. Elliot, Douglas M. Fleming, Alison H. Holmes

Improving ILI Surveillance using Hospital Staff Influenza-like Absence (ILA)

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Victor J. Del Rio Vilas, Gilberto Montibeller, L. Alberto Franco, Willy Aspinall

Multi-dimensional Problems in Health Settings: A Review of Approaches to Decision Making

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Anne Fouillet, Nelly Fournet, Nadege Caillère, Arnaud Musset, Lucas Mercier, Cécile Durand, Céline Caserio-Schönemann, Loic Josseran

SurSaUD® Software: A Tool to Support the Data Management, the Analysis and the Dissemination of Results from the French Syndromic Surveillance System

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Jacob E. Simmering, Linnea A. Polgreen, Philip M. Polgreen

Using Search Volume for Surveillance of Medication Prescribing

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Ian Brooks, Mario Felarca, Bernie A'cs

Refactoring INDICATOR into an Advanced Information System for One Health Monitoring

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Alise L. Brown, William E. Storm, Brian E. Fowler

Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints

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Kathryn Lane, Ramona Lall, Katherine Wheeler, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte

Evaluating Utility of Cold-Injury Syndromic Surveillance Data in New York City

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Stephen E. Schachterle, Robert W. Mathes, Marc Paladini, Don Weiss

Long-Term Asthma Trend Monitoring in New York City: A Mixed Model Approach

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Debra Revere, Ian Painter, Janet Baseman

Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers

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Michael Berry, Jerald Fagliano, Stella Tsai, Katharine McGreevy, Andrew Walsh, Teresa Hamby

Evaluation of Heat-related Illness Surveillance Based on Chief Complaint Data from New Jersey Hospital Emergency Rooms

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Teresa Hamby, Stella Tsai, Carol Genese, Andrew Walsh, Lauren Bradford, Edward Lifshitz

Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey

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Marc Paladini, Romona Lall, Stephen E. Schachterle

Differentiating ZIP Codes in Syndromic Data; What Can They Tell Us?

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Catherine Ordun, Jane W. Blake, Nathanael Rosidi, Vahan Grigoryan, Christopher Reffett, Sadia Aslam, Anastasia Gentilcore, Marek Cyran, Matthew Shelton, Juergen Klenk

Open Source Health Intelligence (OSHINT) for Foodborne Illness Event Characterization

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Indumathi Srinath, Barbara Szonyi, Maria Esteve-Gassent, Blanca Lupiani, Raju Gautam, Alfonso Clavijo, Sang-shin Park, Renata Ivanek-Miojevic

Geographical Information Systems: A Tool to Map and Analyze Disease Spread

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Sanjaya Dhakal, Sherry Burrer, Carla A. Winston, Matthew Miller, Samuel L. Groseclose

LOINC and SNOMED CT Code Use in Electronic Laboratory Reporting - US, 2011

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Kimberly Gajewski, Jean-Paul Chretien, Amy Peterson, Julie Pavlin, Rohit Chitale

A Review of Evaluations of Electronic Event-based Biosurveillance Systems

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Alfred G. Mwanyika, Senga Sembuche, Agricola Joachim

Evaluation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) using Bacillary Dysentery as a Priority Disease, Tanzania, 2012

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Rumi Chunara, Susan Aman, Mark Smolinski, John S. Brownstein

Flu Near You: An Online Self-reported Influenza Surveillance System in the USA

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Pete Kammerer, Gary Brice, Anthony Hawksworth, Chris Myers

ILI and SARI Surveillance along the California & Arizona Borders with Mexico, 2011-12

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Kailah Davis, Julio Facelli

A Grid Based Approach to Share Public Health Surveillance Applications - The R Example

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Alison Ludwig, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Patricia Schirmer, Mark Holodniy

Characteristics of Veterans Accessing the Veterans Affairs Telephone Triage Who Have Depression or Suicidal Ideation: Opportunities for Intervention

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Wei Li

Implementation of a Mobile-Based Surveillance System in Saudi Arabia for the 2009 Hajj

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Kristen Margevicius, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, William B. Daniel, Eric N. Generous, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe, Alina Deshpande

The Biosurveillance Resource Directory - A One-Stop Shop for Systems, Sources, and Tools

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Fatema Mamou, Tiffany Henderson

Analysis of Heat Illness using Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance

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Li Tan, Jie Zhang, Liwei Cheng, Weirong Yan, Vinod K. Diwan, Lu Long, Shaofa Nie

Selecting Targeted Symptoms/Syndromes for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China

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Suleman M. Otho, Shazia Perveen, Qamar Abbas

FSWs Typology and Condoms Use Among HIV High Risk Groups in Sindh, Pakistan: A Developing Country Perspective

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Yasushi Ohkusa, Yoshinori Yasui, Tamie Sugawara, Nobuhiko Okabe, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Kazunori Oishi

Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy

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Nicole Schlaefli, Kiran Duggirala, Scott Meador

Utilization of Various Data Sources to Locate West Nile Clusters in Tulsa County

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Robert Mathes, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte

Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Temperature

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Weirong Yan, Liwei Cheng, Li Tan, Miao Yu, Shaofa Nie, Biao Xu, Lars Palm, Vinod Diwan

Using Medications Sales from Retail Pharmacies for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China

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Adebobola T. Bashorun, Anthony Ahumibe, Saliman Olugbon, Patrick Nguku, Kabir Sabitu

Evaluation of Cholera and Other Diarrheal Disease Surveillance System, Niger State, Nigeria-2012

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Eric Nicholas Generous

Parametric Uncertainty in Intra-Herd Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemiological Models

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Angela Noufaily, Doyo Enki, Paddy Farrington, Paul Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, Andre Charlett

An Improved Algorithm for Outbreak Detection in Multiple Surveillance Systems

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Pascal Vilain, Olivier Maillard, Julien Raslan-Loubatie, Mohamed Ahmed Abdou, Tinne Lernout, Laurent Filleul

Usefulness of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Outbreak Detection in Small Islands: The Case of Mayotte

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Pascal Vilain, Arnaud Bourde, Pierre-Jean Marianne dit Cassou, Yves Jacques-Antoine, Philippe Morbidelli, Laurent Filleul

Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection

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Olawunmi O. Adeoye, Abimbola Aman-Oloniyo, Patrick Nguku, Abiola Oduneye, Modupe Dawodu

Case Based Surveillance for Measles in Lagos, South Western Nigeria, September 2011

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Obaghe Edeghere, Giri Shankar, Alastair Bartholomew, SriKrishna Ramachandra, Vivek Singh, Pradeep Banandur, Linda Parr, Kenny Yap, Babatunde Olowokure, Sue Ibbotson

International Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India

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Emily Kajita, Patricia Araki, Monica Luarca, Bessie Hwang

Monitoring the Impact of Heat Waves with Emergency Service Utilization Data in Los Angeles County

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Mykola Ivanov, Ivan Polupan, Oleg Deryabin

The Activity of Rabies Vaccines against Genetic Clusters of Rabies Virus Circulating at the Territory of Ukraine

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Serhiy Nychyk, Ostap Zhukorskiy, Ivan Polupan, Mykola Ivanov, Alina Nikitova

Improvement Control System of Rabies in Ukraine

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Robert Mathes, Kristina B. Metzger, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte

Surveillance of Heat-related Morbidity: Relation to Heat-related Excess Mortality

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Eric Nicholas Generous, Alina Deshpande, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, Kristen Margevicius, William Brent Daniel, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe

Evaluating Biosurveillance System Components using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

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Céline Dupuy, Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Anne Bronner, Didier Calavas, Pascal Hendrikx, Anne Fouillet

Synergies Between Human and Animal Health Syndromic Surveillance: Triple-S Outputs

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Jawali Jaranilla, Thomas E. Kottke, Courtney J. Baechler

An Algorithm That Identifies Coronary and Heart Failure Events In The Electronic Health Record

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Wan-Jen Wu, Yu-Lun Liu, Hung-Wei Kuo, Wan-Ting Huang, Shiang-Lin Yang, Jen-Hsiang Chuang

An Integrated Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring Scarlet Fever in Taiwan

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Incorporation of School Absenteeism Data into the Maryland Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE)

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Multiagent Simulation of the Hepatitis B Epidemic Process

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Risk and Protective Factors for Arthritis Status and Severity

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Mining Surveillance Data: Does Radiation Treatment of Prostate Cancer Cause Rectal Cancer?

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User Experience of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Respiratory Disease Dashboard

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