STATOpinion

America’s disease surveillance system is going dark. Here’s what we can build to replace it

That surveillance data was the nervous system of American medicine — constantly sensing, constantly warning us what was ...
Governing

Drug Surveillance Systems and the Challenge of Powerful New Opioids

Compounds far more potent than fentanyl are emerging faster than ever. State and local overdose tracking systems should be ...
MobiHealthNews

Oklahoma DOH replaces public health surveillance system with Conduent's platform

Digital business and services company Conduent has been selected by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) to replace its legacy public health surveillance system with Conduent's Maven disease ...
MedCity News

The Hidden Frontline of Public Health: How EMS Data Is Powering a New Era of Syndromic Surveillance

First Responders are often the first to witness signs of an emerging health crisis — an unusual number of overdoses in one neighborhood, a surge in heat-related illness, or a wave of respiratory ...
Nextgov

Shrinking tech team endangers a nationwide disease tracking system at CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was modernizing a public health surveillance system used by 25 health jurisdictions nationwide to track diseases like hepatitis and tuberculosis when the ...
Health Affairs

Engaging Antiracist And Decolonial Praxis To Advance Equity In Oregon Public Health Surveillance Practices

Public health surveillance and data systems in the US remain an unnamed facet of structural racism. What gets measured, which data get collected and analyzed, and how and by whom are not matters of ...
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Increasing the Utility of Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action: A Phase 2 Report

Wastewater-based infectious disease surveillance describes the ongoing collection, analysis, and interpretation of and response to data related to the transmission of pathogens in wastewater for ...
The Conversation

From TB to HIV/AIDS to cancer, disease tracking has always had a political dimension, but it’s the foundation of public health

Amy Lauren Fairchild has received funding from NIH and the RWJ Foundation. She currently receives funding from the Commonwealth Fund, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. Ronald ...