Re: Biosurveillance

[Nuwan Waidyanatha]

Dr. Kass-Hout,

Access to google docs is slow for some reason and I couldn't edit the presentation online; hence, attached is 3 slides may be valuable to add to the master set; feel free to edit and format as you see fit; sorry took me some time, shall keep contributing as we go along

Also see my blog on possible use of QR Codes, may be of interest - http://waidyanatha.blogspot.com/2008/06/qr-codes-for-health-information.html


Nuwan

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:21 PM, T Kass-Hout <kass...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Nuwan,

Thank you for the feedback. and please feel free to edit/create slides
as you wish, you have full rights to the slid deck.

- I added a slide on indicator-based and event-based surveillance. I
like the comparison to EWS very much and I'm wondering if I can use
that as a reference. Here is the definition I added:

   *  Indicator-based surveillance: computation of indicators upon
which unusual disease patterns to investigate are detected  (number of
cases, rates, proportion of strains…)
   * Event-based surveillance: the detection of public health events
based on the capture of ad-hoc unstructured reports issued by formal
or informal sources.

- I have a few place-holders since I still don't have material there.
I was hoping the group would contribute, but I updated the slide deck
to reflect the standards. This is actually good because in the backup
slides I have all sort of taging and I reference standards there in a
note, but I'll dedicate a chapter to that now.

Hope all is well, and thank you once again.

Best,
Taha

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Nuwan Waidyanatha
<waidy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dr. Kasshout,
>
> Nice of you to put it together.
>
> This topic is new to me but is interesting. A few observations and comments
>
> slide 6&7
>
> The definition of an Early Warning System (EWS) that I use, is an "Effective
> EWS". In this context of an effective EWS (which I shall simply as an EWS)
> comprises - sensor, detection, decision, relay, and response subsystem.
> Sensors subsystem pick up information from the source, detection subsystem
> looks for signals in the information, decision subsystem evaluates the
> detected signals separated from the noise to determine a response, relay
> subsystem transmits the message to the appropriate emergency managers based
> on priority rules, and the response subsystem carries out the control
> (response) actions. We can map these subsystems to a typical
> observer-controller subsystem.
>
> In this regard, the question is what is the difference between a
> indicator-based surveillance and event-based surveillance? Can we give this
> definition in one of the preceding slides? Can a indicator-based
> surveillance generate an event and as a result be considered to be
> event-based surveillance?
>
> slides 18 - 23
>
> I'm assuming these slides are yet to be built
>
> What about standards?
>
> alerting standard - CAP
> Health information standard - HL7
> open collaboration standard?
> open social standard?
>
>
> Cheers
> Nuwan
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:32 AM, kass...@gmail.com <kass...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've shared a document with you called "Biosurveillance":
>> http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dhgdvw5r_427f648qvcv&invite=dp33b9q
>>
>> It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open this
>> document, just click the link above.
>> ---
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Please join me in sharing your vision and ideas towards effective
>> biosurveillance. I started this slide deck and once it's in a draft shape we
>> can publish it to the biosurveillance group.
>>
>> Please feel free to invite others as you see fit. There is always the risk
>> of "too many cooks", but I trust your judgment.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Taha
>

[Roshan Hewapathirana]

Dear Dr. Kass,
Same here. I couldn't see most of the content of that Google presentation. I tried to get it downloaded at least, it gave me a blank (garbage ) file.

If you can email the file (in PDF format perhaps), we could send you the comments.

Best regards,
Roshan

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Roshan