UPDATED: Syndromic Surveillance 101 - Introduction to R for Health Surveillance

In this 26 minute video, Eric Bakota offers an overview of a free statistical package, R, and an overview of commonly used tips and tricks shared in the surveillance community for analysis work in R.

Objectives:

April 30, 2019

UPDATED: Syndromic Surveillance 101 - An Introductory Course in Syndromic Surveillance

An Online Training Course

Ever wonder what syndromic surveillance is? How it is applied? This introduction to syndromic surveillance answers your questions and gives you a foundation for understanding how surveillance is used by public health professionals to understand health threats.

 

This video introduces the viewer to the basics of syndromic surveillance and offers a high-level overview of the many uses of this public health tool. Topics covered in this training include:

November 29, 2018

2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results

The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any individual or organization working on or interested in increasing the quality, utility, and availability of syndromic surveillance data. The goal of this assessment was to collect feedback from members regarding the barriers and challenges to participating in the NSSP CoP activities and utilizing its related tools.

 

October 25, 2018

State Opioid Overdose Surveillance Dashboards

Below are the publicly available opioid overdose surveillance dashboards by U.S. state or territory. This list is updated as of March 7, 2019.

June 22, 2018

What is a success story and how do I write one?

Presented March 22, 2018.

Are you facing one of the barriers to writing a story about your surveillance data in action listed below?

Barriers:

  • I don't know what a success story is.
  • I’m not sure if I have a story to share.
  • I have a story, but I don't know how to share it with the community
  • I don't have time to document my story

Have you been asked to write a “success story” but you don’t know where to start? Are you not sure what counts as a success?

March 22, 2018

ICD-10-CM Conversion

Curated list of documents supporting the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS.

For more information about the project, visit the project description page on healthsurveillance.org.

October 30, 2017

ISDS Website Enhancements: Improving Your User Experience

Join us for a follow-up webinar, to our first held last February, where the ISDS staff will present enhancements made to the ISDS website to help you improve your experience as a member. Refresh your knowledge of how to navigate through our website, participate in community discussions, and locate ISDS resources. Also learn new ways to engage with other members of the community, including building connections, following forms, and posting, linking, and sharing announcements across group pages. 

August 10, 2017

Executive Summary of the ISDS DTRA Consultancy Project 2014-2017

The International Society for Disease Surveillance (ISDS) fills the need for a practical forum and coordinating mechanism for collaboration among subject matter experts (SMEs) from stakeholder groups that may normally not interact but who, when brought together, enable innovative approaches to problems and solutions that are not possible by any one group alone. The objective of the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance project was to advance a

April 18, 2017

Tour of the New ISDS Website, Groups and Forums

Join ISDS Communications director Mark Krumm as he walks us through the new ISDS website at healthsurveillance.org. Learn how users can navigate through the new website and how members can share valuable resources and discussions in dedicated workgroups. Join us to also hear about our new knowledge repository scheduled for release in March. Time will be allocated for questions and answers so that users can get real time answers.

Presenter

Mark Krumm, Director of Communications, ISDS

March 21, 2017

Review of the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference: Continuing the Momentum

ISDS is kicking off the year with a webinar to review highlights from the 2016 Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA. If you attended the conference, we invite you to come share and learn more about initiatives sprung from the conference, and to discuss how best to continue moving them ahead. If you were unable to attend the conference, please join us to hear from our Conference Chairs about session highlights and key takeaways. We will also be discussing post-conference evaluation findings and informally collecting feedback for next year's conference.

Presenters

March 15, 2017

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