This document is targeted to program managers and surveillance staff in state health agencies who are involved in the implementation of the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS). The target audience includes epidemiologists and other professional staff with varying degrees of computer knowledge and skills. The goals of the document are: A ~ To present the basic principles of t...

In this paper, we discuss the technical challenges of electronic medical syndromic surveillance systems intended to provide early warning of bioterrorist attacks and naturally occurring epidemics. The discussion includes challenges associated with both civilian and military environments. In particular, we address the challenges in: (1) establishing an automated data collection infrastructure, (...

BACKGROUND This paper describes and assesses the electronic surveillance of outbreaks based on the early warning for four endemic diseases - typhoid fever, amebic dysentery, viral hepatitis A and brucellosis - in Lebanon, for the first 28 weeks of 2005 and first 26 weeks of 2007. METHODS The electronic early warning system is based on the mandatory notification of 37 targeted diseases. The fo...

With the increasing application requirements of spatial information, traditional spatial information techniques can not solve current application problems. As novel technologies that can implement sharing of enormous distributed resource, Grid and Web services provide an effective and efficient way to share and integrate spatial information on the web. Hence, an innovate framework, i.e. Spatial...

Introduction EIDSS supports collection and analysis of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory information on infectious diseases in medical, veterinary and environmental sectors. At this moment the system is deployed in Kazakhstan at 150 sites (planned 271) in the veterinary surveillance and at 8 sites (planned 23) in human surveillance. The system enforces the one-health concept and provides...

INTRODUCTION Public safety at mass gatherings is the responsibility of multiple agencies. Injury surveillance and inter-agency communication are pivotal to ensure continued public safety. OBJECTIVES The principal objective of this pilot study was to improve the identification of trends and patterns of injury presentations at mass gatherings. This was achieved through an electronic process for...