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Welcome!
The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection
Tool (NC DETECT) provides statewide early event detection and timely
public health surveillance to public health officials and hospital
users. NC DETECT was created by the North
Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) in 2004 in collaboration
with the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine to address the need
for early event detection and timely public health surveillance
in North Carolina using a variety of secondary data sources. Authorized
users are currently able to view data from emergency
departments, the Carolinas
Poison Center, and the Pre-hospital
Medical Information System (PreMIS). Data from the Piedmont
Wildlife Center, the NCSU
College of Veterinary Medicine Laboratories, and select urgent
care centers are in final testing and will soon be available for
user analysis.
NC DETECT analyzes these data sources with CUSUM algorithms from
the Early
Aberration Reporting System (EARS), developed by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
NC DETECT is designed, developed and maintained by staff at the
Department of Emergency
Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
with funding by the NC DPH. New functionality is added regularly
based on end user feedback.
NC DETECT was formerly known as the North Carolina Bioterrorism
and Emerging Infection Prevention System (NC BEIPS). The name was
changed to reflect that the system can be used for a myriad of public
health surveillance needs, such as influenza, varicella and post-natural
disaster surveillance, in addition to emerging infection detection.
For more information, please send email to ncdetect@listserv.med.unc.edu.
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