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 ...

John Duah is affiliated with the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. A cluster of people talking on social media about their mysterious rashes. A sudden die-off of birds at a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Public health agencies are under pressure to move faster, detect threats earlier, and make better decisions, even as their funding is cut and their authority reduced. While most public health agencies ...

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have increasingly become integral to both clinical care and public health strategies. As digital repositories of patient information, they facilitate rapid data ...

Built on AWS, an Asia-led initiative is testing a new way to detect outbreaks earlier by sharing intelligence across borders ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Public health departments depend on accurate and timely data to guide their efforts to control the spread of disease. Full integration of information technology is the norm for other essential data ...

There have been 55 cases of bird flu among humans confirmed in the U.S. so far. As seasonal influenza ramps up, and with bird flu continuing to circulate, some public health experts are worried there ...