Enhance public health security with analytics

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Enhance public health security with analytics

• Arlene Garcia, Vice President Americas Public
  Sector, SPSS

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Todays Agenda

• Background
• Action plans
• Challenges in public health security
• Early outbreak detection with SPSS

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Background
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Background

• Biological warfare
• Notifiable diseases

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Public health priority

• Bioterrorism is not a new concern
• Dark Winter exercise in June 2001

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Lessons learned in Dark Winter

• Leaders are unfamiliar with bioterrorism
• Following an attack, leaders decisions would
  depend on others data and expertise
• Lack of drugs limit options
• US health care infrastructure is ill prepared

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Action plans
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States taking action

• All 50 states developing strategies and programs
• Sense of urgency

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CDC Four areas of preparedness

• Reinforce systems of public health surveillance
• Build epidemiologic capacity
• Enhance public health capability
• Communications systems

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NEDSS

• National Electronic Disease Surveillance System
  (NEDSS) to facilitate automated, timely
  electronic capture of data

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Goals of NEDSS

• Assess
• Define
• Identify, prevent and control
• Evaluate
• Stimulate and support
• Eliminate lack of integration

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NEDSS components

• User interface
• Middle layer
• Data analysis
• Data reporting and visualization
• Database

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Current situation
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NEDSS Example
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NEDSS Example
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Challenges in public health security
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Challenges in public health security

• Lack of funding
• Lack of standardized data formats
• Inability of systems to communicate

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Early outbreak detection with SPSS
Peter Frometa, Sales Engineer, SPSS
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Early detection is key

• The speed and accuracy with which doctors and
  laboratories reached correct diagnoses and
  reported their findings to public health
  authorities would directly affect the number of
  deaths. Tara OToole, MD, MPH, Senior Fellow,
  Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, The
  Johns Hopkins University

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SPSS capabilities

• User interface SPSS Data Entry
• Middle layer
• Data analysis SPSS Base, SPSS Trends,
  DecisionTime and WhatIf?, Clementine
• Data reporting and visualization SmartViewer
  Web Server, WebApp
• Database

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Data Entry

• Web Interface
• Reducing Errors

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Time series analysis

• Predictors and Events

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Time series analysis

• Alerts

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Data mining profiles

• For Investigation
• For Diagnosis

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Analysis and reporting

• WebApp Framework
• SmartViewer Web Server

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Other ways SPSS can help

• Bioterrorism
• Emerging Infections Program
• Foodborne Disease Infections
• Physical infrastructure
• Network intrusion
• Local, State, and Federal
• Surveillance Systems

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Why SPSS?

• Total solution
• Minimize false positives
• Examine alerts in multiple ways
• Strong partnerships
• Fast delivery
• Experience

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Free seminar
Homeland security How analytics can help
February 14, 2002Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, Washington
DCKeynote Speaker Dr. Ken Alibek, Former head
of the Soviet Unions top-secret bioweapons
laboratoryhttp//www.spss.com/events/
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Questions?
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Thank you!

• http//www.spss.com/industries/government
• agarcia_at_spss.com