221749 North Carolina Bio-Preparedness Collaborative

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 : 12:30 PM - 12:50 PM

David Potenziani, PhD , NCB-Prepared, UNC School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Charles Coleman, PhD , SAS Institute, Cary, NC
Steve Cline, DDS, MPH , North Carolina Division of Public Health, Raleigh, NC
Sam Averitt, MS , Center for Virtual Computing Lab, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Charles Cairns, MD , Department of Emergency Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Sarah Stein, PhD , Department of Communications, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Henry Schaffer, PhD , Office of Information Technology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Jay Levine, DVM, MPH , College of Veterinary Medicine, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Jose-Marie Griffiths, PhD , School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
Marc Hoit, PhD , Office of Information Technology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Richard Marciano, PhD , School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
     
Background: The North Carolina Bio-Preparedness (NCB-P) Collaborative is a unified all-hazards data resource for proactive surveillance that will provide on–demand analytical power and significantly enhance and extend vigilance and homeland security. The joint-institutional project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / North Carolina State University / SAS proposes to aggregate and integrate local, county, regional, tribal, and state-wide data monitoring agencies and sentinel sources into a federated (shared access), secure “master data commons”.

Objective/Purpose: NCB-P will increase the speed of response in identifying deleterious agents and events that compromise health, security, infrastructure, agriculture, and economic viability. Public health and emergency management workers in North Carolina will be empowered with an analytical decision-support resource, so they can more readily detect, intercept, predict and help prevent episodes that threaten public health, business and industry.

Methods: The system will leverage existing, open-source technologies from UNC's iRODS (integrated Rule-Oriented Data System) for accessing heterogeneous sources of data, NCSU's cloud computing VCL (Virtual Computing Laboratory) to provide a scalable computational and presentation platform, and SAS software for data mining and advanced analytics to inform public health and emergency response leaders from the local to the state to the federal level.

Results: The NCB-P unified federated resource will provide access to currently disparate and dissimilar local and national data sources to make them available for analysis and to inform real time decision-making.

Learning Areas:
Communication and informatics
Epidemiology

Learning Objectives:
Describe data use cases for combining disparate data resources for bio-surveillance. Discuss the methods of rule-based data integration. Describe the use of disparate data and advanced analytics for situational awareness.

Keywords: Public Health Informatics, Surveillance

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have worked in information technology for 20 years and in public health informatics for 15 years. I have developed online state-wide information systems for workforce skills assessment and identification of training opportunities. I am a member of the steering committee of the North Carolina Bio-Preparedness Collaborative.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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