Presentations, Posters and Papers related to NC DETECT

2007
2006
2005
2004 and earlier

NC DETECT in the News

2003-Present

2007

Scholer MJ, Ghneim G, Wu S, Westlake M, Travers D, Waller AE, McCalla A and Wetterhall SF. Defining and Applying a Method for Improving the Sensitivity and Specificity of an Emergency Department Early Event Detection System. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007. In press.

Travers D, Wu S, Scholer MJ, Westlake M, Waller AE and McCalla A. Evaluation of a Chief Complaint Pre-Processor for Biosurveillance. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2007. In press.

Ising A, Travers D, Crouch J, Waller AE. Improving Negation Processing in Triage Notes. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007 4:50
2007 ISDS Conference PowerPoint Presentation is also available.

Ising A, Li M, Deyneka L, Barnett C, Scholer M, Waller A. Situational Awareness Using Web-based Annotation and Custom Reporting. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2007 4:167
2007 ISDS Conference PowerPoint Presentation is also available.

Waller AE, Deyneka L , Ising A. North Carolina Emergency Department Visit Data Available for Public Health Surveillance. NC Med J, July/August 2007, Volume 68, Number 4

2006

Ising A, Li M, Waller AE.
Documenting Alerts within a Web-based Early Event Detection System.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006;964.

Travers DA, Barnett C, Ising A, Waller A.
Timeliness of emergency department diagnoses for syndromic surveillance.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2006;769-73.

Barnett C, Ising A, Travers D, Waller AE. Emergency Department Data Quality Best Practices. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:193

Barnett C, Deyneka L, Waller AE. Post-Katrina Situational Awareness in North Carolina. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:142

Deyneka L, Costa P, Kipp A. Using Poison Center Syndromic Surveillance for Environmental Health Signals Detection. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:151.

Forbach C, Scholer, MJ, Falls DM, Ising A, Waller AE. Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:7.

Falls, DM, McLamb J, Ising A, Waller AE. Using Business Intelligence Tools to Automate Data Capture and Reporting. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:6.

Ghneim GS, Wu S, Westlake M, Scholer MJ, Travers D, Waller AE, Wetterhall S. Defining and Applying a Method for Establishing Gold Standard Sets of Emergency Room Visit Data. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:9

Li M, Ising A, Havaldar R, Waller AE. Multi-Tier Role Based Access for Secure and Flexible Syndromic Surveillance. Advances in Disease Surveillance 2006 2:158

Waller AE, Ising A, Deyneka L. The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool – NC DETECT: (Presentation of Davies Award Winners) PHIN Conference, 9/27/2006, Atlanta, GA.

Waller AE, Ising A, Deyneka L. NC DETECT Uses and Lessons Learned. PHIN Conference, 9/27/2006, Atlanta, GA.

Ising, A, Waller, AE, Steen R, Wagner G. Incorporating Lessons Learned from NC DETECT in the Development of a NHIN Prototype Architecture Biosurveillance Use Case in North Carolina. PHIN Conference, 9/27/2006, Atlanta, GA.

Deyneka L, Ising A, Waller AE, The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool - NC DETECT. NCHICA Annual Conference, 9/11/2006, Greensboro, NC.

Falls, D., McLamb, J. NC DETECT BI Tools. Business Intelligence Forum June 5-6, 2006, San Francisco, CA

Waller, A., Ising, A. Public Health and Biosurveillance: From Plan to Practice. HIMSS Summit, June 7-8, 2006, Washington, D.C.

Waller, A., Ising, A. North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool. HIMSS Annual Conference, 2/15/2006, San Diego, CA

2005

December 2005: North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool: Technical Overview. Presentation given as part of the ASTHO Conference Call Series.

December 2005: North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool: Operational Overview. Presentation given as part of the ASTHO Conference Call Series.

September 2005: Debbie Travers, PhD, RN, Aaron Kipp, BS, Jennifer MacFarquhar, BSN, Anna Waller, ScD
Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor For Pre-Processing Chief Complaint Data for Syndromic Surveillance. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

September 2005: Jennifer MacFarquhar, B.S.N., R.N., Emily Sickbert-Bennett, M.S., Anna Waller, Sc.D., Debbie Travers, Ph.D., R.N., Matthew Scholer, Ph.D., M.D., Megan Davies, M.D. Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

September 2005: Matthew J. Scholer, PhD, MD, Jennifer MacFarquhar, BSN, Emily Sickbert-Bennett, MS, Aaron Kipp, BS, Debbie Travers, PhD, RN, Anna Waller, ScD. Reverse Engineering of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

September 2005: Amy I. Ising, MSIS, Debbie A. Travers, PhD, RN, Jennifer MacFarquhar, BSN, RN, Aaron Kipp, BS, Anna. E. Waller, ScD. Triage Note in Emergency Department-Based Syndromic Surveillance. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

September 2005: Meichun Li, M.S.I.S., Amy Ising, M.S.I.S., Anna E. Waller, Sc.D., Dennis Falls, B.S., Terri Eubanks, B.S., Aaron Kipp, B.S. North Carolina Bioterrorism and Emerging Infection Prevention System. Presentation at the 2005 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Seattle, Washington.

September 2005: John McLamb, MSIA. Securing a Public Health Surveillance System – A case study of the North Carolina Emergency Department Surveillance System. Presentation at HealthSec 2005 Conference.

May 2005: NC DETECT (formerly NC BEIPS) Public Health Information Network (PHIN) Conference, Atlanta, Georgia

May 2005: HIMSS Public Health Davies Award Manuscript

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2004 and earlier

Travers DA, Haas SW. Evaluation of Emergency Medical Text Processor, a system for cleaning chief complaint data.
Academic Emergency Medicine. 2004; 11(11): 1170-1176.

November 2004: Emily Sickbert-Bennett, MS, Anna. E. Waller, ScD, Matthew J. Scholer, PhD, MD, Debbie A. Travers, PhD, RN, George Ghneim, PHD, Jennifer MacFarquhar, BSN, RN, Judy Butler. Evaluation of a Syndromic Surveillance System for the Detection of an Acute Gastroenteritis Outbreak. Presentation at the 2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Boston, MA.

November 2004: Amy Ising, M.S.I.S., Anna E. Waller, Sc.D., Fahim Ahmad, Meichun Li, M.S.I.S., Dennis Falls, B.S., Terri Eubanks, B.S., Jennifer MacFarquhar, BSN, RN. North Carolina Emergency Department Database: Timely, Convenient Access to ED Data. Presentation at the 2004 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference, Boston, MA.

November 2004: Matthew J. Scholer, PhD, MD, Anna. E. Waller, ScD. Development of a Syndrome Definition for Influenza-like-illness. Presentation at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

September 2004: Debbie Travers, PhD, RN, Stephanie Haas, PhD. Validation of Emergency Medical Text Processor: A New Tool for Extracting Terms from Clinical Text. Presentation at International Medical Informatics Association/MEDINFO, San Francisco, CA.

September 2004:Carmen Beard, M.S.I.S, Anna Waller,Sc.D., Debbie Travers, PhD, RN, Stephanie Haas, PhD. Electronic Emergency Department Data for Bioterrorism Surveillance: Regional Assessment of Data Availability and a Sentinel Hospital Concept. Presentation at International Medical Informatics Association/MEDINFO, San Francisco, CA.

September 2004: Amy Ising, M.S.I.S., Anna E. Waller, Sc.D., Fahim Ahmad, Meichun Li, M.S.I.S., Dennis Falls, B.S., Terri Eubanks, B.S., Jennifer MacFarquhar, BSN, RN. North Carolina Emergency Department Database: Timely, Convenient Access to ED Data. Presentation at International Medical Informatics Association/MEDINFO, San Francisco, CA.

Travers DA, Haas SW. Using nurses' natural language entries to build a concept-oriented terminology for patient's chief
complaints in the emergency department. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2003; 36:260-270.

Travers DA, Waller A, Haas S, Lober WB, Beard C. Emergency department data for bioterrorism surveillance: Electronic
availability, timeliness, sources and standards. Proceedings of the AMIA Symposium. 2003; November.

February 2003: Moore, Jill. New North Carolina Public Health Bioterrorism Law. (Instititute of Government) Health Law (79).

September 2002: Cline, J. S. Preparing for Bioterrorism in North Carolina. North Carolina Medical Journal. September/October 2002. 63(5): 257-264.

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NC DETECT In the News

August 28, 2007: NC DHHS Press Release: Heat Wave Emergency Department Monitoring Yields Surprising Results

April 3, 2006: North Carolina puts out a net for tracking diseases, Government Computer News. The article also includes a nice timeline of emergency department data collection in North Carolina in PDF format, http://www.gcn.com/newspics/G08newsp12.pdf

December 1, 2005: Bioterrorism, infection surveillance system receives national award for excellence

November 16, 2005: Surveillance system links hospitals (Although not referred to by name, NC DETECT is the system that "can look for flu-like illnesses, gastrointestinal symptoms, respiratory-system complaints, fevers and rashes, among other medical symptoms" and is the system "the state used ... to track victims of Hurricane Katrina who were relocated to North Carolina."

October 13, 2005: Recognizing Quality in Action, HIMSS Announces Winners of the Nicholas E. Davies Awards of Excellence

May 23, 2003: Researchers aim to centralize N.C. emergency room data to combat epidemics, bioterrorism (UNC News Release)

June 30, 2003: NC ER Database Program Honored

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