Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
December 3, 2012
1380 Harbor
Island Drive | San Diego, California 92101
Don’t miss the
2012 ISDS Pre-Conference Workshops! The workshops include options for professionals
with varying levels of experience – from students to seasoned practitioners. ISDS
invites professionals from around the world to develop core disease
surveillance skills and collaborate with their peers.
ISDS
Pre-Conference Tracks will be lead by respected leaders in the field, including
Dr. Howard Burkom, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (Data Analysis
Methods 101); Mr. James Daniel, Office of the National Coordinator for Health
Information Technology (Meaningful Use Overview); Dr. Scott McNabb, Emory School
of Public Health (Track 3 Sessions), among others.
Concurrent Pre-Conference Tracks
Track
1: Syndromic Surveillance, Informatics, Data Analysis, and Anomaly
Investigation: The 101 Series. This workshop
will provide an overview of key topics to introduce professionals to core
public health and surveillance competencies. The track will include an overview
of syndromic surveillance, public health informatics, data analysis methods,
anomaly detection, investigation techniques, and data visualization methods
using “R” statistical software. The objective of this track is to “bridge the
knowledge gap” in order to better understand and apply public health data for
informed and meaningful decision-making.
Track
2: Public Health and Meaningful Use: Closing the Surveillance Loop. This workshop is designed to facilitate
discussions around Meaningful Use and the need for closing the surveillance
loop between healthcare providers and public health practitioners in order to
increase the effectiveness and capacity of disease surveillance. The track will
include an overview of Meaningful Use and Health Information Exchanges (HIEs),
including best practices, lessons learned, and next steps. Interactive break-out
sessions will focus on the healthcare provider onboarding process, data
transport mechanisms, data quality issues, analytics, attestation, and other
group-specified topics. The break-out groups will have an opportunity to
summarize and report their findings to the larger group. The workshop will
conclude with a panel discussion, integrating the perspectives of public health
practitioners and healthcare providers on the “meaning” of meaningful use data.
Track
3: Assessment tools to meet the core capacities of the International Health
Regulations (IHRs). This hands-on
workshop will introduce participants to concepts and tools to assess the gaps
and current performance of public health practice needed to meet the core
requirements for both biosafety and biosurveillance under the International
Health Regulations (IHR). Attendees will learn about IHR requirements and
assessment concepts, plus use hands-on tools to measure country-specific
opportunities and challenges in implementing public health interventions that
fill gaps and improve performance. They will discuss specific approaches to
measurement of impediments to IHR target compliance by correlating their
assessment findings into recommendations for public health stakeholders.
Swap Meet
All tracks will
also feature access to the Swap Meet
session. The Swap Meet is an exciting opportunity to walk around to
tables and informally discuss topics or systems with system developers, system
users, and experts.
*Please note that Continuing Medical
Education credits (CME) will not be offered for 2012 Pre-Conference Workshop attendance.
