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Thu, 2011-09-29 09:25 — mdmcdonald
The Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is focused on exploring the advancement of community health resilience.

The mission of the Community Health Resilience Collaboratory is to advance community health resilience.

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Flu Strain Identified in 2 Calvert County Deaths

Wed, 2012-03-07 21:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

       

A health worker leaves the Lusby home of an 81-year-old woman who died from respiratory illness on March 1.

by Tim Persinko - nbcwashington.com - March 7, 2012

Lab testing identified the same strain of influenza in two of the three victims who died with respiratory sickness last week in Calvert County.

The county's health department has been investigating a cluster of illnesses that led to three deaths in Lusby, MD, near the Calvert Cliffs nuclear facility.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Health said on Wednesday afternoon that Influenza H3, a strain of Influenza A that has been circulating this season, was found in two of the cases.

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3 Dead, 1 Sick From Mystery Respiratory Illness

Wed, 2012-03-07 21:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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    • Disease Sleuths Surf For Outbreaks Online

    Thu, 2012-03-01 21:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    Source: NPR - Credit: Adam Cole, Maggie Starbard

    by Adam Cole - npr.org - February 24, 2012

    . . . "Surveillance is one of the cornerstones of public health," says Philip Polgreen, an epidemiologist at the University of Iowa. "It all depends on having not only accurate data, but timely data."

    Public health officials have been trying to speed up their responses to disease outbreaks since, well, they started responding to outbreaks.

    There's still plenty of room for improvement.

    The current system requires the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to compile reports about from physicians and labs all over the country — and that can take a while. There's typically a week-long delay between an outbreak and the release of an official report.

    To get an early read on things, epidemiologists look for the first clues of illness — a rise in thermometer sales or increased chatter on hospital phone lines. Now, they're tapping into the Internet. . . .

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    • Small Massachusetts HIT Conference Returns to Big Issues in Health Care

    Thu, 2012-02-09 10:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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    by Andy Oram - radar.oreilly.com - February 6, 2012

    I've come to look forward to the Massachusetts Heath Data Consortium's annual HIT conference because--although speakers tout the very real and impressive progress made by Massachusetts health providers--you can also hear acerbic and ruthlessly candid critiques of policy and the status quo. Two notable take-aways from last year's conference (which I wrote up at the time) were the equivalence of old "managed care" to new "accountable care organizations" and the complaint that electronic health records were "too expensive, too hard to use, and too disruptive to workflow." I'll return to these claims later.

    The sticking point: health information exchange

    This year, the spears were lobbed by Ashish Jha of Harvard Medical School, who laid out a broad overview of progress since the release of meaningful use criteria and then accused health care providers of undermining one of its main goals, the exchange of data between different providers who care for the same patient.

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    White House Honors Champions of Change in Emergency Preparedness

    Mon, 2012-01-23 00:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    Posted in blog.fema.gov by: Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator

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    Technological Healing

    Tue, 2012-01-03 22:52 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    by Sharon Begley - technologyreview.com - January/February 2012

          

    More data: Technologies aimed at improving our health are proliferating. One example is this device that plugs into an iPhone to turn it into a glucose monitor. Credit: Patrik Stollarz/AFP/Getty Images

    A leading researcher says digital technologies are about to make health care more effective. But is so much data really beneficial?

    Nanosensors patrolling your bloodstream for the first sign of an imminent stroke or heart attack, releasing anticlotting or anti-inflammatory drugs to stop it in its tracks. Cell phones that display your vital signs and take ultrasound images of your heart or abdomen. Genetic scans of malignant cells that match your cancer to the most effective treatment.

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    Analysis of Warning Process: Swine-Origin Triple Reassortant Influenza A(H3N2) Virus In USA

    Wed, 2011-12-21 23:39 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    by James Wilson, M.D. - Biosurveillance - December 21, 2011

    We have been monitoring the situation with swine-origin triple reassortant influenza A(H3N2) virus (S-OtrH3N2) inside the United State for some time now.  Recent reports of likely human-human transmission sparked debate, discussed here in this post.

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    RAND - Focus on Community Resilience - Newsletter

    Sat, 2011-12-17 00:30 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    imageWelcome to the first Focus on Community Resilience newsletter. At RAND, we have been intensively studying the many cross-cutting issues related to how communities can withstand and recover from disasters and other conditions that affect community well-being. We are launching this newsletter to share research findings, resources, and tools with people like you who are working to help communities prepare for natural and manmade emergencies. We hope this newsletter will stimulate an exchange of ideas among community leaders and a forum to share lessons about resilience-building strategies and activities.

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    EPA Says Fracking May Be Polluting Groundwater

    Fri, 2011-12-09 00:37 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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    CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday for the first time that fracking — a controversial method of improving the productivity of oil and gas wells — may be to blame for causing groundwater pollution.

    The draft finding could have significant implications while states try to determine how to regulate the process. Environmentalists characterized the report as a significant development though it met immediate criticism from the oil and gas industry and a U.S. senator.

    The practice is called hydraulic fracturing and involves pumping pressurized water, sand and chemicals underground to open fissures and improve the flow of oil or gas to the surface.

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    CDC Confirms Cases of New Swine Flu Virus

    Sat, 2011-11-26 19:35 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    by Liz Szabo - USA Today - November 24, 2011

          

    H1N1 strain of the swine flu virus Photograph: Photographer: C. S. Goldsmith an/AP

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed three cases of a new flu virus, which originated in pigs but apparently spread from person to person, in three Iowa children.

    However, there's no reason to fear the beginning of a new pandemic, says Arnold Monto, a flu expert and professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health.

    "I don't think this is anything to worry about for the moment," Monto says. "We have known that swine viruses get into humans occasionally, transmit for a generation or two and then stop. The issue is whether there will be sustained transmission (from person to person)- and that nearly never happens."

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