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Leveraging Clinical Data for Public Health and Hypertension Surveillance

Public Health Informatics Institute: Background on

The purpose of this document is to provide background information to public health agencies seeking to implement chronic disease surveillance using electronic health record (EHR) data, including considerations that should be discussed with clinical health information technology (IT) stakeholders, and suggest approaches for evaluating the reliability (..)

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ProMED and samdesk enter into a long-term strategic alliance for next-generation global infectious disease early warning detection and monitoring.

ProMED

.” The samdesk and ProMED partnership will not only set a new standard for Corporate Security and Emergency Response teams, the joint capabilities also unlock enormous potential for Public Health Agencies, Health and Human services, and global business entities across the world.

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Testing the Waters: Ethiopia Pilots a Wastewater Surveillance Program

APHL

“The surveillance will provide a sensitive signal of whether the pathogen is present in the population and whether transmission is increasing or declining,” he added. While the pilot may be done, a comprehensive wastewater-based surveillance system in Ethiopia is not.

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Laying the Groundwork: Leveraging Local Health Networks to Modernize Public Health Data in Chicago

National Network of Public Health Institutes

Despite recognizing data improvement as a potential strategy to address the increasing chronic disease burden in the United States, the public health sector has struggled to keep pace with advances and innovation in data. There are widespread initiatives to move the work of data modernization forward in public health.

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APHL and Ruvos Named Winner of 2024 Amazon Web Services Inaugural Children’s Health Innovation Award

APHL

While healthcare providers rely on public health laboratories to conduct critical patient testing, the current process for exchanging test orders and results between public health agencies and healthcare institutions is challenged by several inefficiencies.

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What is bird flu and how are we protecting people against it in the UK?

UK Health Security

Measures to protect against humans from bird flu UKHSA works with the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA), the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), Food Standards Agency (FSA), and the public health agencies of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to monitor the risk to human health from emerging influenza viruses.