Table of Contents
| Enabling User-Driven Public Health Analyses through Automated Data Querying | |
| Raj Ashar | 41 |
| The Snow Agent System: A Peer-to-Peer System for Disease Surveillance and Diagnostic Assistance | |
| Johan G. Bellika, Gudleif Aronsen, Monika A. Johansen, Gunnar Hartvigsen, Gunnar S. Simonsen | 42 |
| Automated Data Acquisition: Data Collection and Integration for the Alberta Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Net (ARTSSN) | |
| Corinne Blair, Bryan Wicentowich, Shihe Fan, James Talbot | 43 |
| Sensitivity and Specificity of an Ngram Method for Classifying Emergency Department Visits into the Respiratory Syndrome in the Turkish Language | |
| Philip Brown, Cem Oktay, Arif Alper Cevik, Isa Kilicaslan, Colin Goodall, Sylvia Halasz, Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra, Cemal Bilgin, Guy Jacobson, Simon Tse | 44 |
| The Performance of a NGram Classifier for Patients' Chief Complaint Based on a Computerized Pick List Entry and Free Text in an Italian Emergency Department | |
| Philip Brown, Gemma Morabito, Sylvia Halasz, Colin Goodall, Dennis G. Cochrane, Bruno Tartaglino, Mauro Giraudo, Olivia Cerrina, John R. Allegra | 45 |
| Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data | |
| Michael Calderwood, Michael Klompas, Xuanlin Hou, Jessica Malenfant, Gillian Haney, Benjamin Kruskal, Richard Platt | 46 |
| Consultative Meeting on Chief Complaint Classifiers and Standardized Syndromic Definitions | |
| Wendy W. Chapman, John N. Dowling | 47 |
| Investigating Syndromic Peaks Using Remotely Available Electronic Medical Records | |
| Dennis G. Cochrane, John R. Allegra, Jian-Hua Chen, Hwa-Gan Chang | 48 |
| Using the Emergency Medical Text Processor to Standardize Chief Complaints in Boston's Syndromic Surveillance System | |
| Michael Donovan, Julia E. Gunn | 49 |
| Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes | |
| Amy Ising, Debbie Travers, John Crouch, Anna Waller | 50 |
| Processes for Data Gathering, Assessment and Disease Event Tracking | |
| Cynthia Johnson, Judy Akkina, Camilla Kristensen, Victoria Bridges | 51 |
| The Electronic Support for Public Health (ESP) Project: Automated Detection and Electronic Reporting of Notifiable Diseases | |
| Michael Klompas, Ross Lazarus, Gillian Haney, Xuanlin Hou, James Daniel, Francis Campion, William Dumas, Benjamin Kruskal, Alfred DeMaria, Richard Platt | 52 |
| SurvNet- Electronic Surveillance System for Infectious Disease Outbreaks in Germany | |
| G. Krause, D. Altmann, D. Faensen, K. Schenkel, J. Benzler, T. Pfoch, A. Ammon, M. H. Kramer, H. Claus | 53 |
| Multilingual Chief Complaint Classifier | |
| Hsin-Min Lu, Hsinchun Chen, Daniel Zeng, Chwan-Chuen King, Lea Trujillo, Ken Komatsu | 54 |
| Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis | |
| El Sayed Mahmoud, Deborah A. Stacey | 55 |
| Services Oriented Architectures and Just in Time Deployment of Ad-Hoc Health Surveillance Systems: Lessons from Katrina Relief Efforts | |
| Parsa Mirhaji, Arunkumar Srinivasan, Narendra Kunapareddy, Raouf Arafat | 56 |
| A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters | |
| F. Mostashari, N. Soulakis, N. Calman, D. Buckeridge | 57 |
| Monitoring the Vital Signs of Community Health- The Pyramid Syndromic Surveillance Project | |
| James M. Nania, Raymond M. Tansy | 58 |
| An Experimental Fully Automatic Syndromic Surveillance in Japan | |
| Yasushi Ohkusa, Tamie Sugawara, Hiroaki Sugiura, Kazuo Kodama, Takushi Horie, Kiyoshi Kikuchi, Kiyosu Taniguchi, Nobuhiko Okabe | 59 |
| Utilization of the Syndromic Surveillance Framework for Detection of Heat-Related illnesses | |
| Chanteau Orr, Kelly VanBuskirk | 60 |
| Propagating the Effects of Missing Data Sources in a Surveillance System | |
| I. S. Painter, A. Harvey, K. Peterson, P. Tran, Kevin Taylor | 61 |
| Automated Detection of GI Syndrome using Structured and Non-Structured Data from the VA EMR | |
| Brett R. South, Adi V. Gundlapalli, Shobha Phansalkar, Shuying Shen, Sylvain Delisle, Trish Perl, Matthew H. Samore | 62 |
| GUARDIAN: Geographic Utilization of Artificial Intelligence in Real-Time for Disease Identification and Notification | |
| Michael J. Waddell, Shon M. Doseck, Julio C. Silva, Dino P. Rumoro | 63 |