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Online J Public Health Inform. 2014 Feb 5;5(3):224. doi: 10.5210/ojphi.v5i3.4938. eCollection 2014.
Technical Description of the Distribute Project: A Community-based Syndromic Surveillance System Implementation.
Lober WB1, Reeder B2, Painter I1, Revere D1, Goldov K1, Bugni PF1, McReynolds J1, Olson DR3.
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Abstract
This paper describes the design of a syndromic surveillance system implemented for community-based monitoring of influenza-like illness. The system began as collaboration between colleagues from state and large metropolitan area health jurisdictions, academic institutions, and the non-profit, International Society for Disease Surveillance. Over the six influenza seasons from 2006 to 2012, the system was automated and enhanced, with new features and infrastructure, and the resulting, reliable, enterprise grade system supported peer comparisons between 44 state and local public health jurisdictions who voluntarily contributed summarized data on influenza-like illness and gastrointestinal syndromes. The system was unusual in that it addressed the needs of a widely distributed, voluntary, community engaged in real-time data integration to support operational public health.
KEYWORDS:
Internet, public health standards, secondary use of health data, surveillance practice, syndromic surveillance
PMID:
24678377
[PubMed]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24678377
Technical Description of the Distribute Project: A Community-based Syndromic Surveillance System Implementation.
Lober WB1, Reeder B2, Painter I1, Revere D1, Goldov K1, Bugni PF1, McReynolds J1, Olson DR3.
Author information
Abstract
This paper describes the design of a syndromic surveillance system implemented for community-based monitoring of influenza-like illness. The system began as collaboration between colleagues from state and large metropolitan area health jurisdictions, academic institutions, and the non-profit, International Society for Disease Surveillance. Over the six influenza seasons from 2006 to 2012, the system was automated and enhanced, with new features and infrastructure, and the resulting, reliable, enterprise grade system supported peer comparisons between 44 state and local public health jurisdictions who voluntarily contributed summarized data on influenza-like illness and gastrointestinal syndromes. The system was unusual in that it addressed the needs of a widely distributed, voluntary, community engaged in real-time data integration to support operational public health.
KEYWORDS:
Internet, public health standards, secondary use of health data, surveillance practice, syndromic surveillance
PMID:
24678377
[PubMed]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24678377