Information on pneumococcal disease, including immunisation programs, and optimum future surveillance in each Australian State and Territory were discussed at the Pneumococcal Disease in Australia Workshop on 26-27 March 1999. Workshop participants further expanded on the surveillance aspects of the Workshop in this report. Most participants favoured notification by laboratories of pneumococcal...

We describe a content-based distributed notification service for Publish/Subscribe communication that implements theWS-Notification (WSN) standards. The notification service is built on a messaging framework that supports an associative rendezvous messaging mechanism on a structured overlay of peer nodes. The entire system acts as a notification broker, so that notification publishers and subsc...

Methods We used the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention updated guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance system. We conducted a retrospective review of AFP surveillance data between 1st January, 2008 and 31st December, 2014. We conducted in-depth interviews with identified stakeholders. Semi-structured questionnaires were administered to Disease Surveillance and Notification O...

BACKGROUND In Barbados sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV are not notifiable diseases and there is not a formal partner notification (PN) programme. Objectives were to understand likely attitudes, barriers, and challenges to introducing mandatory disease notification (DN) and partner notification (PN) for HIV and other STIs in a small island state. METHODS Six key informants...

BACKGROUND Two of the major risk factors for hepatitis C are injection drug use and receipt of blood or blood products. Many patients are unaware that they have received transfusions. In 1998 Prince Edward Island conducted a province-wide look-back notification program to notify patients who had received transfusions in PEI between Jan. 1, 1984, and June 1, 1990. The authors present the results...

To determine if expanded queries can be used to identify specific reportable diseases/conditions not detected by using automated syndrome categories, we developed new categories to use with the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics. Results suggest innovative queries can enhance clinicians' compliance with reportable disease requirements.

In this paper, we introduce an application for a discreet notification of mobile persons in a multi-user environment. In particular we use the current user position to provide a personalized email notification with non-speech audio cues embedded in aesthetic background music. The notification is done in a peripheral way to avoid distration of other people in the surrounding.