Table of Contents
Editorial
| Editorial: 2012 ISDS Conference Proceedings | |
| Amy Ising |
Oral Presentations: Border Health/ Multi-jurisdictional Health
| A Systematic Evaluation of Data Streams for Global Disease Surveillance | |
| Alina Deshpande, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, William B. Daniel, Eric N. Generous, Andrea Hengartner, Kristen Margevicius, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe |
| A Binational Influenza Surveillance Network - California/Baja California | |
| Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Sarah Marikos, Karen Ferran |
| Enhancing Surveillance for Arboviral Infections in the Arizona Border Region | |
| Orion McCotter, Frank Vanskike, Kacey Ernst, Ken Komatsu, Harold Margolis, Stephen Waterman, Laura Tippit, Kay Tomashek, Anne Wertheimer, Sonia Montiel, Catherine Golenko, Elizabeth Hunsperger |
| Effectiveness of the 2011-12 Influenza Vaccine: Data from US Military Dependents and US-Mexico Border Civilians. | |
| Damaris Padin, Anthony Hawksworth, Peter Kammerer, Erin McDonough, Gary Brice |
Oral Presentations: Analytical Methods - Bayesian
| Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data | |
| Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Liane Ramac-Thomas, Christopher Cuellar, Vivian Hung |
| Sequential Bayesian Inference for Detection and Response to Seasonal Epidemics | |
| Michael Ludkovski, Junjing Lin |
| Tau-leaped Particle Learning | |
| Jarad Niemi, Michael Ludkovski |
| Modeling Baseline Shifts in Multivariate Disease Outbreak Detection | |
| Jialan Que, Fu-Chiang Tsui |
Oral Presentations: Cluster Detection
| Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations | |
| Howard Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Carla Winston, Julie Pavlin, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy |
| Multiple Source Spatial Cluster Detection Through Multi-criteria Analysis | |
| Luiz H. Duczmal, Alexandre C. L. Almeida, Fabio R. da Silva, Martin Kulldorff |
| Using the Flow of People in Cluster Detection and Inference | |
| Sabino J. Ferreira, Francisco S. Oliveira, Ricardo Tavares, Flavio R. Moura |
| Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records | |
| Meichun Li, Wayne Loschen, Lana Deyneka, Howard Burkom, Amy Ising, Anna Waller |
| Searching for Complex Patterns Using Disjunctive Anomaly Detection | |
| Maheshkumar Sabhnani, Artur Dubrawski, Jeff Schneider |
| Tracking Dynamic Water-borne Outbreaks with Temporal Consistency Constraints | |
| Skyler Speakman, Yating Zhang, Daniel B. Neill |
Oral Presentations: Data Quality and Underlying Patterns in Data Streams
| Using Information Entropy to Monitor Chief Complaint Characteristics and Quality | |
| Shaun Grannis, Brian Dixon, Yuni Xia, Jianmin Wu |
| Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System | |
| Wayne Loschen, Aaron Kite-Powell |
| Disease Mapping with Spatially Uncertain Data | |
| Justin Manjourides, Ted Cohen, Caroline Jeffery, Marcello Pagano |
| Extraction of Disease Occurrence Patterns Using MiSTIC: Salmonellosis in Florida | |
| Vipul Raheja, K. S. Rajan |
| Data Quality: A Systematic Review of the Biosurveillance Literature | |
| Tera Reynolds, Ian Painter, Laura Streichert |
| Detecting Changes in Chief Complaint Word Count: Effects on Syndromic Surveillance | |
| Jessica Sell, Robert Mathes, Marc Paladini |
Oral Presentations: Disease Surveillance Methods
| Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks | |
| Carrie Eggers, Aaron Kite-Powell, Janet Hamilton |
| A Biosurveillance-driven Home Score to Guide Strep Pharyngitis Treatment | |
| Andrew Fine, Victor Nizet, Kenneth Mandl |
| An Experimental Study Using Opt-in Internet Panel Surveys for Behavioral Health Surveillance | |
| Carol A. Gotway Crawford, Catherine A. Okoro, Haci M. Akcin, Satvinder Dhingra |
| A Piece of the Public Health Surveillance Puzzle: Social Contacts among School-Aged Children | |
| Molly Leecaster, Warren Pettey, Damon Toth, Jeanette Rainey, Amra Uzicanin, Matthew Samore |
| 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 | |
| Reena Mahajan, Anne C. Moorman, Stephen J. Liu, Loralee Rupp, Monina Klevens, (CHeCS) for the Chronic Hepatitis Cohort Investigators |
| The Black Canyon Forecast Station: Experiences And Lessons Learned | |
| James M. Wilson, Bonnie Koehler, Kathleen Sramek, Treve Henwood |
Oral Presentations: Electronic Health Records
| CaseFinder: A Flexible Real-time Online Surveillance Registry for Infectious Disease Physicians to Report Cases of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) | |
| Donald Curtis, Scott Weissman, Dimitri Drekonja, Susan Beekmann, Benjamin Buckmaster, John Lynch, April Abbott, Ferric Fang, Philip Polgreen |
| A System for Surveillance Directly from the EMR | |
| Richard F. Davies, Jason Morin, Ramanjot S. Bhatia, Lambertus de Bruijn |
| Evaluation of Clinical and Administrative Data to Augment Public Health Surveillance | |
| Joseph R. Egger, Brooks Lowe, Erica Johnson, Randy Durbin, Erica Griffin, Sanjaya Dhakal, Achintya Dey, Sam Groseclose |
| Processing of Novel Electronic Health Data to Support Public Health Surveillance | |
| Peter Hicks, Henry Rolka, Mark Wooster, Lynette Brammer |
| SMART Platforms: Building The App Store for Biosurveillance | |
| Kenneth D. Mandl |
| Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Using Novel Clinical Data Sources | |
| Rebecca Zwickl, Charles Ishikawa, Laura C. Streichert |
Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Evaluation and Practice
| Use of a Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance System to Improve Influenza Like Illness Screening and Documentation in Emergency Departments during the H1N1 Pandemic | |
| David Meurer, James Talbot |
| Does Antimicrobial Prescription Data Improve Influenza Surveillance in VA? | |
| Patricia Schirmer, Carla Winston, Russell Ryono, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Gina Oda, Mark Holodniy |
| Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet) | |
| Kathleen Stigi, Atar Baer, Kathy Lofy |
| Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri | |
| Fei Wu, Amy Kelsey |
| Automated Surveillance of Outpatients with Pneumonia: A Performance Evaluation | |
| Hongzhang Zheng, Tariq Siddiqui, Sylvain DeLisle |
Oral Presentations: Influenza Surveillance Methods - Research
| Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems | |
| Howard S. Burkom, Yevgeniy Elbert, Carla Winston, Julie Pavlin, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Mark Holodniy |
| Influenza Forecasting with Google Flu Trends | |
| Andrea F. Dugas, Mehdi Jalalpour, Yulia Gel, Scott Levin, Fred Torcaso, Takeru Igusa, Richard Rothman |
| Detection of Patients with Influenza Syndrome Using Machine-Learning Models Learned from Emergency Department Reports | |
| Arturo Lopez Pineda, Fu-Chiang Tsui, Shyam Visweswaran, Gregory F. Cooper |
| Using Surveillance Data to Identify Risk Factors for Severe H1N1 in First Nations | |
| Kathryn Morrison, Yanyu Xiao, Seyed Moghadas, David Buckeridge |
| Comparing Prescription Sales, Google Trends and CDC Data as Flu Activity Indicators | |
| Avinash Patwardhan, David Lorber |
Oral Presentations: Information Sharing & Partnerships
| Detection of a Swine Erysipelas Outbreak Using Enhanced Passive Surveillance | |
| Judy Akkina, Wolf Weber, Lisa Becton |
| The Epidemiologic Vocabulary of the West and the Former Soviet Union: Different Sides of the Same Science | |
| Anna Grigoryan, Carmen Clarke, Lyudmila Zueva, Tetyana Chumachenko, Edmond F. Maes, Bonnie Smoak |
| A Health Department's Collaborative Model for Disease Surveillance Capacity Building | |
| Ikechi Konkwo, Robert G. Harmon, William C. Livingood, Thomas Bryant III, Saad Zaheer |
| Sharing Public Health Information with Non-Public Health Partners | |
| Wayne Loschen, Rekha Holtry, Kalman Hazins, Sheryl Happel Lewis |
| Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness | |
| Dina B. Passman, Aaron Kite-Powell, Dara Spector, Wayne Loschen, Barry Harp, Aaron Chern, Janet Hamilton, Cary Eggers, Joseph Lombardo |
| Collaboration for Improved Disease Surveillance Literature Review | |
| Tera Reynolds, Katie Suda, Blaine Reeder, William Storm, Al Ozonoff, Howard Burkom |
Oral Presentations: Meaningful Use
| Evaluation of Emergency Department Data Quality following PHIN Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide | |
| Hwa-Gan Chang, Charlene Weng, Charlie DiDonato, Dave DiCesare, Jian-Hua Chen, Debra Blog |
| Towards Interoperability for Public Health Surveillance: Experiences from Two States | |
| Brian E. Dixon, Jason A. Siegel, Tanya V. Oemig, Shaun J. Grannis |
| Towards Estimation of Electronic Laboratory Reporting Volumes in a Meaningful Use World | |
| Brian E. Dixon, Roland E. Gamache, Shaun J. Grannis |
| Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data | |
| Geraldine Johnson, Charles Ishikawa, Rebecca Zwickl, Maiko Minami, Taha Kass-Hout, Laura Streichert |
| Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data | |
| Wayne Loschen, William Stephens, Taha Kass-Hout, Miles Stewart, Dave Heinbaugh, Joseph Lombardo |
| Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data | |
| Miles Stewart, Wayne Loschen, Taha Kass-Hout |
Oral Presentations: Novel Uses of Syndromic Data
| Can We Use Syndromic Surveillance Data to Identify Primary Care Visits to NYC EDs? | |
| Jessica Athens |
| Use of Syndromic Data to Determine Oral Health Visit Burden on Emergency Departments | |
| Howard Burkom, Sherry Burrer, Laurie Barker, Valerie Robison, Peter Hicks, Amy Ising |
| Nontraumatic Oral Health Classification for Alternative Use of Syndromic Data | |
| Sherry Burrer, Howard Burkom, Christopher Okunseri, Laurie Barker, Valerie Robison |
| Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011 | |
| Achintya N. Dey, Anna Grigoryan, Soyoun Park, Stephen Benoit, Taha Kass-Hout |
| COPD-Related ED Visits in North Carolina: Hospitalizations and Return Visits | |
| Steven J. Lippmann, Karin B. Yeatts, Anna Waller, Kristen Hassmiller Lich, Debbie Travers, Morris Weinberger, James F. Donohue |
| A Syndromic Approach to Emergency Department Surveillance for Skin and Soft Tissue Infections | |
| Larissa May, Marcus Rennick, Leah Gustafson, Julia Gunn |
Oral Presentations: Social and News Media
| MoH+: A Global, Integrated, and Automated View of Official Outbreak Reporting | |
| Chi Bahk, David Scales, Sumiko Mekaru, John S. Brownstein, Clark Freifeld |
| Development of a Vietnamese Language Outbreak Mapping and Surveillance System | |
| David Bui, Sumiko Mekaru, Clark Freifeld, John S. Brownstein |
| Tweeting Fever: Are Tweet Extracts a Valid Surrogate Data Source for Dengue Fever? | |
| Jacqueline S. Coberly, Clayton R. Fink, Eugene Elbert, In-Kyu Yoon, John M. Velasco, Agnes Tomayo, V. Roque, S. Ygano, Durinda Macasoco, Sheri Lewis |
| #wheezing: A Content Analysis of Asthma-Related Tweets | |
| Gwendolyn Gillingham, Michael A. Conway, Wendy W. Chapman, Michael B. Casale, Kathryn B. Pettigrew |
| Content Analysis of Tobacco-related Twitter Posts | |
| Mark Myslín, Shu-Hong Zhu, Michael Conway |
| Framing the Use of Social Media Tools in Public Health | |
| Jennifer Stoll, Richard Quartarone, Miguel Torres-Urquidy |
Oral Presentations: Surveillance during Mass Gatherings and Outbreaks
| Enhanced Disease Surveillance during the 2012 Republican National Convention, Tampa, FL | |
| David Atrubin, Michael Wiese, Rebecca Snider, Kiley Workman, Warren McDougle |
| Using GI Syndrome Data as an Early Warning Tool for Norovirus Outbreak Activity | |
| Erin E. Austin, Jun Yang, Tim Powell |
| State Foodborne Illness Surveillance and Response Laws: Compilation and Analysis | |
| Stephanie David, Jenna Burton, Chris Chadwick, Rebecca Katz |
| Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC | |
| Carrie Eggers, Dina Passman, Aaron Chern, Dara Spector, Aaron Kite-Powell, Tim Davis, Wayne Loschen, Joe Lombardo, Douglas Char, Janet Hamilton |
| Evaluating a Social Network Analytic Tool to Support Outbreak Management and Contact Tracing in an Outbreak of Pertussis | |
| Esther Munene, S. Mottice, J. Reid |
| Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events | |
| Megan Patel, Enyinnaya Adighibe, Joseph Lombardo, Wayne Loschen, Miles Stewart, Michael O. Vernon |
Oral Presentations: Syndrome Development & Validation & Natural Language Processing
| Computerized Text Analysis to Enhance Automated Pneumonia Detection | |
| Sylvain DeLisle, Tariq Siddiqui, Adi Gundlapalli, Matthew Samore, Leonard D'Avolio |
| Extracting Surveillance Data from Templated Sections of an Electronic Medical Note: Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Adi Gundlapalli, Guy Divita, Marjorie Carter, Shuying Shen, Miland Palmer, Tyler Forbush, Brett South, Andrew Redd, Brian Sauer, Matthew Samore |
| A Novel Syndrome Definition Validation Approach for Rarely Occurring Diseases | |
| Julio C. Silva, Shital C. Shah, Dino P. Rumoro, Marilyn M. Hallock, Gillian S. Gibbs, Michael J. Waddell |
| The Distribution of Infectious Related Symptoms in an Internet-based Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China | |
| Qi Zhao, Fuqiang Yang, Lars Palm, Hui Yuan, Weirong Yan, Biao Xu |
Oral Presentations: System Descriptions & Evaluations
| Syndromic Surveillance for Outbreak Detection and Investigation | |
| Tom Andersson, Pär Bjelkmar, Anette Hulth, Johan Lindh, Stephan Stenmark, Mikael Widerström |
| New Strategy and Innovative Projects at the National Biosurveillance Integration Center | |
| Steven Bennett, Teresa Quitugua |
| Identification and Assessment of Public Health Surveillance Gaps under the IHR (2005) | |
| Ngozi Erondu, Betiel Hadgu Haile, Lisa Ferland, Meeyoung Park, Affan Shaikh, Heather Meeks, Scott JN McNabb |
| Malaria Trends in Six Outpatient Sites in Uganda, 2008 - 2011 | |
| Ruth K. Nassali, Arthur Mpimbaza, Stella Kakeeto, Asadu Sserwanga, Fred Kizito, Denis Rubahika, Melody Miles, Michelle Chang, Grant Dorsey, Moses Kamya |
| Syndromic Surveillance from a Local Perspective: A Review of the Literature | |
| Donald Olson, Kevin Konty, Rob Mathes, Marc Paladini |
| Adapting Syndromic Surveillance Systems to Increase Value to Local Health Departments | |
| Erika Samoff, Mary T. Fangman, Amy Ising, Lana Deyneka, Anna E. Waller |
Oral Presentations: System Resources and Assessment
| Using Cultural Modeling to Inform a NEDSS-Compatible System Functionality Evaluation | |
| Olympia Anderson, Miguel Torres-Urquidy |
| Use of BioSense for Rapid Assessment of the Safety of Medical Countermeasures | |
| Ralph J. Coates, Kathleen Gallagher |
| Biosurveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) Workflow Analysis | |
| Timothy Dasey, Heyley Davison Reynolds, Nancy Nurthen, Christopher Kiley, John Silva |
| The Organizational Structures and Human Resources Allocation of Infectious Disease Surveillance System in Rural China | |
| Biao Xu, Qi Zhao, Huijian Cheng, Tao Tao, Yipin Zhu, Miao Yu, Hui Yuan |
Oral Presentations: Temporal or Spatio-temporal
| Spatial Scan Statistics for Models with Excess Zeros and Overdispersion | |
| Max Sousa de Lima, Luiz H. Duczmal, Leticia P. Pinto |
| Category-Specific Comparison of Univariate Alerting Methods for Biosurveillance Decision Support | |
| Yevgeniy Elbert, Vivian Hung, Howard Burkom |
| Determinants of Outbreak Detection Performance | |
| Nastaran Jafarpour, Doina Precup, David Buckeridge |
| Fast Multidimensional Subset Scan for Outbreak Detection and Characterization | |
| Daniel B. Neill, Tarun Kumar |
| Applying Zero-inflated Mixed Model to School Absenteeism Surveillance in Rural China | |
| Xiaoxiao Song, Tao Tao, Qi Zhao, Fuqiang Yang, Palm Lars, Diwan Vinod, Hui Yuan, Biao Xu |
Oral Presentations: Weather, Environmental, and Vector-borne
| Public Health Surveillance in Pilot Drinking Water Contamination Warning Systems | |
| Chrissy Dangel, Steven C. Allgeier, Darcy Gibbons, Adam Haas |
| Using Google Dengue Trends to Estimate Climate Effects in Mexico | |
| Rebecca T. Gluskin, Mauricio Santillana, John S. Brownstein |
| Use of Syndromic Surveillance Information for Expanded Assessment of Wildfire Disaster | |
| Jeffrey Johnson, Michele Ginsberg, Nancy French, Brian Thelen, Benjamin Koziol |
| Surveillance for Radiation-Related Exposures Reported to the National Poison Data System | |
| Royal K. Law, Colleen Martin, Alvin Bronstein, Arthur Chang, Joshua Schier |
| When it Rains it Pours: Real-time Situational Awareness for Two Weather Emergencies in Connecticut | |
| Kristen Soto, Jaime Krasnitski, Therese Rabatsky-Ehr, Matthew Cartter |
Panels
| Update from CDC's Public Health Surveillance & Informatics Program Office (PHSIPO) | |
| James Buehler, Laura Conn, Carol Crawford, Kathleen Gallagher |
| An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods | |
| Michael Coletta, Howard Burkom, Jeffrey Johnson, Wendy Chapman |
| S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance | |
| Michael Coletta, Nikolay Lipskiy, David Birnbaum, John Abellera |
| Poison Center Data for Public Health Surveillance: Poison Center and Public Health Perspectives | |
| Royal K. Law, Josh Schier, Jay Schauben, Katherine Wheeler, Prakash Mulay |
Posters
| Comparing Syndromic Surveillance and Poison Center Data for Snake Bites in Missouri | |
| Karen H. Pugh, Amy Kelsey, Rebecca Tominack |
| Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System | |
| Cynthia A. Lucero-Obusan, Carla A. Winston, Patricia L. Schirmer, Gina Oda, Anoshiravan Mostaghimi, Mark Holodniy |
| Syndromic Surveillance at the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory | |
| Kylius Wilkins, Bruce Akey, Belinda Thompson, Daryl Nydam |
| State and Local Health Agency Engagement in HIE: A Cross-Sectional Survey | |
| Brian E. Dixon, Roland E. Gamache, Shaun J. Grannis |
| Enabling Syndromic Surveillance in Pakistan | |
| Ross Maciejewski, Shehjad Afzal, Adam J. Fairfield, Arif Ghafoor, David S. Ebert, Naeem Ayyaz, Maaz Ahmed |
| Statistical Models for Biosurveillance of Multiple Organisms | |
| Doyo G. Enki, Angela Noufaily, C. P. Farrington, Paul H. Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, André Charlett, Chris Lane |
| Increasing Mild Enterovirus Cases Provides An Important Signal of Up-coming Trends in Elevating Severe Enterovirus Cases | |
| Ta-Chien Chan, Rung-Hung Chen, Chwan-Chuen King |
| EIDSS Application for CCHF Foci Activity Epi-Analysis and Prediction in Kazakhstan | |
| Stanislav V. Kazakov, Alexey V. Burdakov, Kenes S. Ospanov, Aizhan S. Esmagambetova, Andrey O. Ukharov, Veronika P. Sadovskaya, Umirbek B. Usenov |
| Co-morbidity Factors Associated with Influenza in Nigeria | |
| Aishatu B. Gubio, Saka J. Muhammad, Aisha Mamman, Ado Zakari, Oladayo Biya |
| Use of Control Bar Matrix for Outbreak Detection in Syndromic Surveillance System | |
| Tao Tao, Qi Zhao, Huijian Cheng, Lars Palm, Xin Lu, Hui Yuan, Xiaoxiao Song, Biao Xu |
| Using Syndromic Emergency Department Data to Augment Oral Health Surveillance | |
| John P. Jasek, Nicole Hosseinipour, Talia Rubin, Ramona Lall |
| The Surveillance Window - Contextualizing Data Streams | |
| Kirsten McCabe, Lauren Castro, Mac Brown, William Daniel, Eric Nick Generous, Kristen Margevicius, Alina Deshpande |
| A Survey of Data Recording Procedures at New York City Emergency Departments | |
| Jessica Sell, Alyssa Wong |
| A Framework for Detecting and Classifying Outbreaks of Gastrointestinal Disease | |
| Kathryn Morrison, Katia Charland, Anya Okhmatovskaia, David Buckeridge |
| Improving ILI Surveillance using Hospital Staff Influenza-like Absence (ILA) | |
| Lydia Drumright, Simon Frost, Mike Catchpole, John Harrison, Mark Atkins, Penny Parker, Alex J. Elliot, Douglas M. Fleming, Alison H. Holmes |
| Multi-dimensional Problems in Health Settings: A Review of Approaches to Decision Making | |
| Victor J. Del Rio Vilas, Gilberto Montibeller, L. Alberto Franco, Willy Aspinall |
| SurSaUD® Software: A Tool to Support the Data Management, the Analysis and the Dissemination of Results from the French Syndromic Surveillance System | |
| Anne Fouillet, Nelly Fournet, Nadege Caillère, Arnaud Musset, Lucas Mercier, Cécile Durand, Céline Caserio-Schönemann, Loic Josseran |
| Using Search Volume for Surveillance of Medication Prescribing | |
| Jacob E. Simmering, Linnea A. Polgreen, Philip M. Polgreen |
| Refactoring INDICATOR into an Advanced Information System for One Health Monitoring | |
| Ian Brooks, Mario Felarca, Bernie A'cs |
| Tracking Drug Overdose Trends in Ohio using ED Chief Complaints | |
| Alise L. Brown, William E. Storm, Brian E. Fowler |
| Evaluating Utility of Cold-Injury Syndromic Surveillance Data in New York City | |
| Kathryn Lane, Ramona Lall, Katherine Wheeler, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte |
| Long-Term Asthma Trend Monitoring in New York City: A Mixed Model Approach | |
| Stephen E. Schachterle, Robert W. Mathes, Marc Paladini, Don Weiss |
| Traditional and Mobile Public Health Alert Communications with Health Care Providers | |
| Debra Revere, Ian Painter, Janet Baseman |
| Evaluation of Heat-related Illness Surveillance Based on Chief Complaint Data from New Jersey Hospital Emergency Rooms | |
| Michael Berry, Jerald Fagliano, Stella Tsai, Katharine McGreevy, Andrew Walsh, Teresa Hamby |
| Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey | |
| Teresa Hamby, Stella Tsai, Carol Genese, Andrew Walsh, Lauren Bradford, Edward Lifshitz |
| Differentiating ZIP Codes in Syndromic Data; What Can They Tell Us? | |
| Marc Paladini, Romona Lall, Stephen E. Schachterle |
| Open Source Health Intelligence (OSHINT) for Foodborne Illness Event Characterization | |
| Catherine Ordun, Jane W. Blake, Nathanael Rosidi, Vahan Grigoryan, Christopher Reffett, Sadia Aslam, Anastasia Gentilcore, Marek Cyran, Matthew Shelton, Juergen Klenk |
| Geographical Information Systems: A Tool to Map and Analyze Disease Spread | |
| Indumathi Srinath, Barbara Szonyi, Maria Esteve-Gassent, Blanca Lupiani, Raju Gautam, Alfonso Clavijo, Sang-shin Park, Renata Ivanek-Miojevic |
| LOINC and SNOMED CT Code Use in Electronic Laboratory Reporting - US, 2011 | |
| Sanjaya Dhakal, Sherry Burrer, Carla A. Winston, Matthew Miller, Samuel L. Groseclose |
| A Review of Evaluations of Electronic Event-based Biosurveillance Systems | |
| Kimberly Gajewski, Jean-Paul Chretien, Amy Peterson, Julie Pavlin, Rohit Chitale |
| Evaluation of Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) using Bacillary Dysentery as a Priority Disease, Tanzania, 2012 | |
| Alfred G. Mwanyika, Senga Sembuche, Agricola Joachim |
| Flu Near You: An Online Self-reported Influenza Surveillance System in the USA | |
| Rumi Chunara, Susan Aman, Mark Smolinski, John S. Brownstein |
| ILI and SARI Surveillance along the California & Arizona Borders with Mexico, 2011-12 | |
| Pete Kammerer, Gary Brice, Anthony Hawksworth, Chris Myers |
| A Grid Based Approach to Share Public Health Surveillance Applications - The R Example | |
| Kailah Davis, Julio Facelli |
| Characteristics of Veterans Accessing the Veterans Affairs Telephone Triage Who Have Depression or Suicidal Ideation: Opportunities for Intervention | |
| Alison Ludwig, Cynthia Lucero-Obusan, Patricia Schirmer, Mark Holodniy |
| Implementation of a Mobile-Based Surveillance System in Saudi Arabia for the 2009 Hajj | |
| Wei Li |
| The Biosurveillance Resource Directory - A One-Stop Shop for Systems, Sources, and Tools | |
| Kristen Margevicius, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, William B. Daniel, Eric N. Generous, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe, Alina Deshpande |
| Analysis of Heat Illness using Michigan Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance | |
| Fatema Mamou, Tiffany Henderson |
| Selecting Targeted Symptoms/Syndromes for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China | |
| Li Tan, Jie Zhang, Liwei Cheng, Weirong Yan, Vinod K. Diwan, Lu Long, Shaofa Nie |
| FSWs Typology and Condoms Use Among HIV High Risk Groups in Sindh, Pakistan: A Developing Country Perspective | |
| Suleman M. Otho, Shazia Perveen, Qamar Abbas |
| Estimation of Influenza Incidence by Age in the 2011/12 Seasons in Japan using SASSy | |
| Yasushi Ohkusa, Yoshinori Yasui, Tamie Sugawara, Nobuhiko Okabe, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Kazunori Oishi |
| Utilization of Various Data Sources to Locate West Nile Clusters in Tulsa County | |
| Nicole Schlaefli, Kiran Duggirala, Scott Meador |
| Risk of Cardiovascular Morbidity and Mortality in Relation to Temperature | |
| Robert Mathes, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte |
| Using Medications Sales from Retail Pharmacies for Syndromic Surveillance in Rural China | |
| Weirong Yan, Liwei Cheng, Li Tan, Miao Yu, Shaofa Nie, Biao Xu, Lars Palm, Vinod Diwan |
| Evaluation of Cholera and Other Diarrheal Disease Surveillance System, Niger State, Nigeria-2012 | |
| Adebobola T. Bashorun, Anthony Ahumibe, Saliman Olugbon, Patrick Nguku, Kabir Sabitu |
| Parametric Uncertainty in Intra-Herd Foot-and-Mouth Disease Epidemiological Models | |
| Eric Nicholas Generous |
| An Improved Algorithm for Outbreak Detection in Multiple Surveillance Systems | |
| Angela Noufaily, Doyo Enki, Paddy Farrington, Paul Garthwaite, Nick Andrews, Andre Charlett |
| Usefulness of Syndromic Surveillance for Early Outbreak Detection in Small Islands: The Case of Mayotte | |
| Pascal Vilain, Olivier Maillard, Julien Raslan-Loubatie, Mohamed Ahmed Abdou, Tinne Lernout, Laurent Filleul |
| Syndromic Surveillance Based on Emergency Visits: A Reactive Tool for Unusual Events Detection | |
| Pascal Vilain, Arnaud Bourde, Pierre-Jean Marianne dit Cassou, Yves Jacques-Antoine, Philippe Morbidelli, Laurent Filleul |
| Case Based Surveillance for Measles in Lagos, South Western Nigeria, September 2011 | |
| Olawunmi O. Adeoye, Abimbola Aman-Oloniyo, Patrick Nguku, Abiola Oduneye, Modupe Dawodu |
| International Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India | |
| Obaghe Edeghere, Giri Shankar, Alastair Bartholomew, SriKrishna Ramachandra, Vivek Singh, Pradeep Banandur, Linda Parr, Kenny Yap, Babatunde Olowokure, Sue Ibbotson |
| Monitoring the Impact of Heat Waves with Emergency Service Utilization Data in Los Angeles County | |
| Emily Kajita, Patricia Araki, Monica Luarca, Bessie Hwang |
| The Activity of Rabies Vaccines against Genetic Clusters of Rabies Virus Circulating at the Territory of Ukraine | |
| Mykola Ivanov, Ivan Polupan, Oleg Deryabin |
| Improvement Control System of Rabies in Ukraine | |
| Serhiy Nychyk, Ostap Zhukorskiy, Ivan Polupan, Mykola Ivanov, Alina Nikitova |
| Surveillance of Heat-related Morbidity: Relation to Heat-related Excess Mortality | |
| Robert Mathes, Kristina B. Metzger, Kazuhiko Ito, Thomas Matte |
| Evaluating Biosurveillance System Components using Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis | |
| Eric Nicholas Generous, Alina Deshpande, Mac Brown, Lauren Castro, Kristen Margevicius, William Brent Daniel, Kirsten Taylor-McCabe |
| Synergies Between Human and Animal Health Syndromic Surveillance: Triple-S Outputs | |
| Céline Dupuy, Jean-Baptiste Perrin, Anne Bronner, Didier Calavas, Pascal Hendrikx, Anne Fouillet |
| An Algorithm That Identifies Coronary and Heart Failure Events In The Electronic Health Record | |
| Jawali Jaranilla, Thomas E. Kottke, Courtney J. Baechler |
| An Integrated Syndromic Surveillance System for Monitoring Scarlet Fever in Taiwan | |
| Wan-Jen Wu, Yu-Lun Liu, Hung-Wei Kuo, Wan-Ting Huang, Shiang-Lin Yang, Jen-Hsiang Chuang |
| Detecting the Determinants of Health in Social Media | |
| Caitlin Rivers, Bryan Lewis, Sean Young |
| Content Analysis of Syndromic Twitter Data | |
| Bethany Keffala, Mike Conway, Son Doan, Nigel Collier |
| Evaluating Syndromic Data for Surveillance of Non-infectious Disease | |
| Ramona Lall, Marc Paladini |
| Towards Linking Anonymous Authorship in Casual Sexual Encounter Ads | |
| Jason A. Fries, Alberto M. Segre, Philip M. Polgreen |
| New Strategy to Monitor and Assess Laboratory Biosafety Programs | |
| Heather N. Meeks, Betiel H. Haile, Ngozi A. Erondu, Lisa Ferland, Meeyoung Park, Scott J. McNabb |
| Evaluating the Variation on Public Health's Perceived Field Need of Communicable Disease Reports | |
| Uzay Kirbiyik, Roland Gamache, Brian E. Dixon, Shaun Grannis |
| Evaluation of the Pyrrolizidine Alkaloid Induced Liver Disease (PAILD) Active Surveillance System in Tigray, Ethiopia | |
| Cindy Chiu, Danielle Buttke, Girmay Welde, Richard Luce, Asfaw Debela, Amsalu Bitew, Tesfaye Bayleyegn, Sara Vagi, Matthew Murphy, Daniel Woldemichael, Teshale Seboxa, Gidey G. Libanos, Zeyeda Beyene, Yohannes G. Hawaria, Daddi Jimma, Israel Tareke, Danielle Rentz, Colleen Martin |
| Potential use of multiple surveillance data in the forecast of hospital admissions | |
| Eric H. Lau, Dennis K.M. Ip, Benjamin J. Cowling |
| Can Novel Flu Surveillance Be Conducted With Limited Resources? | |
| Alan Siniscalchi, Amanda Schulte |
| Who's Not Coming to Dinner? Evaluating Trends in Online Restaurant Reservations for Outbreak Surveillance | |
| Elaine O. Nsoesie, David L. Buckeridge, John S. Brownstein |
| The Natural Reservoirs of Salmonella Enteritidis in Populations of Wild Birds | |
| Olga Obukhovska |
| A Bayesian Approach to Characterize Hong Kong Influenza Surveillance Systems | |
| Ying Zhang, Ali Arab, Michael A. Stoto |
| HIV Surveillance in India: An Overview & Implications for Future | |
| Divya Persai |
| Evaluating Usefulness of Maine's Syndromic Surveillance System for Hospitals, 2012 | |
| Stefanie DeVita, Amy Robbins |
| Surveillance-Based Program Planning | |
| Rossi Sanusi |
| Incorporation of School Absenteeism Data into the Maryland Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) | |
| Zachary Faigen, Anikah Salim, Isaac Ajit |
| On the implementation of the Biological Threat Reduction Program in the Republic of Uzbekistan | |
| Laziz Tuychiev, Marifjon Madaminov |
| Multiagent Simulation of the Hepatitis B Epidemic Process | |
| Tetyana Chumachenko, Dmytro Chumachenko, Olexandr Sokolov |
| Risk and Protective Factors for Arthritis Status and Severity | |
| Masaru Teramoto, Fred Breukelman, Ferdinando A. Gatto, Sheniz Moonie |
| Disease Models for Event Prediction | |
| Courtney D. Corley, Laura Pullum |
| Serum Zinc Concentration and Acute Diarrhea in Children from Different Regions of Uzbekistan | |
| Gulnara A. Ibadova, T. A. Merkushina, E. S. Abdumutalova, Aybek V. Khodiev |
| Challenges and Opportunities in Routine Time Series Analysis of Surveillance Data | |
| Isabelle Devaux, Esther Kissling, Gilles Desve, Frantiska Hruba, Francisco Luquero, Chantal Quinten, Joana Gomes-Diaz, Marta Valenciano, Denis Coulombier |
| Mining Surveillance Data: Does Radiation Treatment of Prostate Cancer Cause Rectal Cancer? | |
| John W. Morgan, Brice Jabo, Mark E. Ghamsary, Kevork Kazanjian |
| User Experience of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Respiratory Disease Dashboard | |
| Jennifer A. Cockrill, Alice Y. Tsai, Timothy C. Campbell, Jean-Paul Chretien, Julie A. Pavlin, Ronald L. Burke |
| U.S. Dept. Veterans Affairs (VA) SMEC-bio Reporting for Leadership Decision Support | |
| Shantini D. Gamage, Loretta A. Simbartl, Stephen M. Kralovic, Katherine S. Wallace, Gary A. Roselle |
| Using Change Point Detection for Monitoring the Quality of Aggregate Data | |
| Ian Painter, Julie Eaton, Bill Lober |
| Raccoons in San Diego County as Sentinels for West Nile Virus Surveillance | |
| Sarah C. Marikos, Karen L. Ferran, Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Nikos Gurfield |
| One World, One Health, One Medicine: An Assessment of Intersectoral Collaboration in Avian Influenza Control in Lagos State | |
| Abimbola Aman-Oloniyo, Olalekan Allison, Musbau A. Razaq |
| Collaborative Automation Reliably Remediating Erroneous Conclusion Threats (CARRECT) | |
| Jonathan C. Lansey, Paul Picciano, Ian Yohai, Fred Grant, Robert Gern |
| Enhanced Surveillance during the Democratic National Convention, Charlotte, NC | |
| Lana Deyneka, Amy Ising, Meichun Li |
| Novel Emergency Department High Utilizer Surveillance In New Hampshire | |
| David J. Swenson, Cole Zanetti, Elizabeth R. Daly, Jose T. Montero |
| Adaptation of GUARDIAN for Syndromic Surveillance During the NATO Summit | |
| Julio C. Silva, Dino P. Rumoro, Shital C. Shah, Gillian S. Gibbs, Marilyn M. Hallock, Michael Waddell, Shon Doseck |
Roundtables
| Advancing Surveillance Outside the USA: The Canadian Policy, Practice, and Research Context | |
| Effie Gournis, David Buckeridge |
| Implications of ICD-9/10 CM Transition for Public Health Surveillance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from Multiple Sectors of Public Health | |
| Peter Hicks, Atar Baer |
| Disease Surveillance and Achieving Synergy In Public Health Quality Improvement | |
| Peggy A. Honoré, Laura C. Streichert |
| Defining Public Health Situation Awareness - Outcomes and Metrics for Evaluation | |
| Don Olson, Rob Mathes, Marc Paladini, Kevin Konty |
| Advancing Surveillance of Chronic and Non-Communicable Disease - Path Forward | |
| Elissa R. Weitzman, Nadia Waheed |
System Showcase Demonstrations
| National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness | |
| Meredith Arasaratnam, David Potenziani, Marc Hoit, Colleen Jenkins, Charles Cairns |
| One Health Surveillance with Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System | |
| Alexey V. Burdakov, Andrey O. Ukharov, Thomas G. Wahl |
| BioSense 2.0 | |
| Kelley G. Chester |
| Biosurveillance Adaptable Framework for Teaming, Exploration and Reuse (BioAFTER) | |
| Timothy Dasey, Lars Fiedler |
| TRACnet: A National Phone-based and Web-based Tool for the Timely Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response in Rwanda | |
| Kayumba Kizito, Kabeja Adeline, Koama Jean Baptiste, Asiimwe Anita, Binagwaho Agnes, Pamela Johnson, Nyatanyi Thierry |
| SAGES Update: Electronic Disease Surveillance in Resource-Limited Settings | |
| Sheri L. Lewis, Timothy C. Campbell, Jacqueline S. Coberly, Richard A. Wojcik, Shraddha V. Patel, Brian Feighner |
| A Web-based Electronic Health Record System for National Surveillance | |
| Jake R. Marcus |
| Establishment of a One Health Surveillance Initiative in the CA/Baja CA Border Region | |
| Sarah C. Marikos, Karen L. Ferran, Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens, Francisco Javier Monge Navarro |
| A Binational Model of Collaboration for Enhancing Cross-border ID Surveillance | |
| Kristine Ortwine, Karen Ferran, Esmeralda Iniguez-Stevens |
| Fusion Analytics: A Data Integration System for Public Health and Medical Disaster Response Decision Support | |
| Dina B. Passman |
| Bayesian Contact Tracing for Communicable Respiratory Disease | |
| Ayman Shalaby, Daniel Lizotte |
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