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4 Outside Perspectives
Pages 35-40

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... KEEPING PACE WITH DATA COLLECTIONS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT1 Peter Purcell, Banking Supervision and Regulation, Federal Reserve Board, pointed to some interesting common threads between the fields of finance and biosurveillance. One is that people count.
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From page 36...
... At the same time, you need to be flexible to capture new information you never thought you'd need to go after, because the public policy response to something that's happened Thursday needs to be announced before the markets open on Monday, and it needs to be secure." Data collection and analysis need support from leadership, Purcell said, and Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke has been providing this support. In recent testimony, Bernanke said, "we have begun an enhanced quantitative surveillance program for large bank holding companies that will use data analysis and formal modeling to help identify vulnerabilities at both the firm level and for the financial sector as a whole.
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From page 37...
... 2 This section is based on the presentation by Isaac Ashkenazi, National Leadership Preparedness Initiative, Harvard University; former head of the Medical Services and Supply Center for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and former Surgeon General for the IDF Home Front Command.
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... The United States does not have a national threat document or planning scenarios informed by the medical community. It does have a national response framework written by the Department of Homeland Security, which Ashkenazi deemed an "excellent document." But it does not have a medical response framework.
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From page 39...
... But in an emergency, information sharing is high threat and low benefit, which reduces the value of social media exchanges. Finally, in response to a question about government sharing of information, Ashkenazi said that discussions need to occur about which kinds of information the public, law enforcement, the medical community, and the emergency response system should receive.
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