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Pittsburgh Life Sciences Company Using Community Health Surveillance Platform to Track H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu)

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Pittsburgh, PA, May 4, 2009 — Health Monitoring Systems (HMS) is a Pittsburgh-based company pioneering a new field in the healthcare information technology arena: Community Health Surveillance. HMS is currently supporting state and local public health departments as they work to monitor the H1NI Flu (Swine Flu). HMS has been working continuously to help track […]

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Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance Through Cross-border Data Sharing

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The Ohio Department of Health and the Indiana State Department of Health enhanced their individual syndromic efforts through cross-border sharing of emergency department (ED) chief complaint data.  A poster of this project is available here.

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Detection of Enteric Disease Epidemics Using a Diarrhea-specific Category

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The Utah Department of Health documented a single epidemic of cryptosporidiosis in Utah during 2007. Seven hundred eleven laboratory-confirmed cases were reported in Salt Lake County, Utah from July 27 through December 18. Illness onset date was available for 86% (611 of 711) of patients and ranged from May 30 through November 11. Approximately 32% […]

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Preferences & Perceptions of Biosurveillance System Users

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Early detection is a function of many biosurveillance systems that strives to decrease the time between the onset of an event (e.g. infectious disease epidemic) and discovery. Situational awareness is another function that provides for timely information that public health can use to assess status of events (e.g. outbreak progression or general community health). With […]

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After Widespread Flooding, EpiCenter Monitors Disease Vector Populations

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Insects and arachnids are vectors for a variety of diseases of public health importance.  In areas where these diseases are endemic, some health departments routinely monitor these populations and apply control measures as necessary.  In other areas, monitoring is infeasible or unnecessary under normal conditions, but could be of value under extraordinary circumstances such as […]

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Evaluation of Microbiology Orders from a Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory as a Potential Data Source for Early Outbreak Detection

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Animals continue to be recognized as a potential source of surveillance data for detecting emerging infectious diseases, bioterrorism preparedness, pandemic influenza preparedness, and detection of other zoonotic diseases.  Dr. Loren Shaffer explores this issue in a paper published by Advances in Disease Surveillance and can be accessed from their website.

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