Information Sharing and Collaboration Applications to Integrated Biosurveillance: Workshop Summary (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Each year, billions of dollars are spent on biosurveillance, including animal, human, and environmental surveillance, as well as health care management and technology and infrastructure maintenance, activities which have implications for biosurveillance (Wagner et al., 2006)
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with establishing "an operational national epidemiologic surveillance system for human health, with international connectivity where appropriate, that is predicated on state, regional, and communitylevel capabilities and creates a networked system to allow for two-way information flow between and among Federal, State, and local government public health authorities and clinical health care providers." In response to this directive, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Biosurveillance Coordination Unit (BCU)
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. This strategy defined the scope and function of biosurveillance for human health to include • all hazards, including biological, chemical, radiological, nuclear, and explosives, both intentional and natural; • definitions established by urgency and the potential for multi jurisdictional interest; • urgent notifiable conditions and nonspecific and novel health events; • ad hoc data gathering, analysis, and application of information; • functions including case detection, event detection, signal valida tion, event characterization, notification and communication, and quality control and improvement; and • support for rapid and efficient discharge of responsibilities for the International Health Regulations.
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recommended that NBIC define and communicate a common mission and purpose, define common procedures and strategies to align multiple agency cultures, and establish performance measures to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration (GAO, 2009)
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. If it were easy, it would be done." The goals of the workshop were to • examine the strengths and limitations of different models of in formation analysis, control, and distribution, with a focus on identifying best practices and incentives for information sharing and exploring the options for when and what information is shared and how it is attributed and acknowledged; • consider examples and lessons learned from other similar infor mation sharing collaborations; • explore approaches to developing an effective and sustainable concept of operations that includes joint rules, procedures, and performance measures; and • illustrate the value added in collaboration through scenarios and real-life examples.
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Chapter 3 describes the presentations of three state and local public health officials from New York City, North Carolina, and Marion County, Indiana. Chapter 4 offers views from two outside observers: one a Federal Reserve official, the other a top medical official from Israel.
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Finally, IOM staff involvement and support throughout the process ensured a smooth and swift process from start to finish.
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