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Activity Number: 145
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 5, 2013 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Abstract - #309980
Title: A Standardization Initiative to Link Public Health Surveillance Problem Owners to Solution Developers
Author(s): Howard Burkom*+
Companies: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
Keywords: syndromic surveillance ; standardization ; situational awareness ; alerting algoirthms ; ISDS
Abstract:

Despite the publication of hundreds of articles over the past two decades, there is little agreement among the disease surveillance community on technical standards for public health data monitoring. The International Society of Disease Surveillance (ISDS) has formed a Technical Conventions Committee to specify and communicate technical problems routinely facing public health professionals; to facilitate sharing of data and methodologies; to link the expertise of solution developers with public health practitioner needs; and to evaluate proposed methods and the utility of solutions. Areas for which technical standards will be considered include anomaly detection, threat characterization, clinical decision support, and public health policy makers. The panel will present committee procedures for posting use cases as well-defined technical problems with benchmark datasets along with sample problems as a challenge to attendee developers. Objectives are to discuss the proposed standards process to further empower public health surveillance and to provide examples of technical challenges with practical constraints and potential solution concepts.


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