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Technologies to Enable Autonomous Detection for BioWatch Ensuring Timely and Accurate Information for Public Health Officials: Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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... Local jurisdictions are responsible for the public health response to positive findings. The Federal Bureau of 1 The planning committee's role was limited to planning the workshop, and the workshop summary has been prepared by the workshop rapporteurs as a factual summary of what occurred at the workshop.
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... in DHS on a variety of issues related to its mission, including administration of the National Biosurveillance Center and the BioWatch program. Although the IOM and the NRC may be asked to examine other issues regarding BioWatch, the focus of this particular workshop was highly circumscribed, as was explained by William Raub, retired science advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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... Specifically, the committee will develop the agenda for the workshop and identify and in vite speakers and discussants to address the following questions:  What are the advantages and disadvantages of alternative cost effective, flexible, and accurate surveillance systems that could be deployed to ensure that an environmental biothreat is detected as soon as possible, generates a confirmatory response that is accepta ble to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state/local public health officials, and thus optimizes the amount of time available for making the decision to deploy an available medical countermeasure?
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...  Discuss the role of public health officials and laboratorians in the interpretation of BioWatch data and the information that is need ed from a system for effective decision making.  Review the current state of the art and explore the potential use of four families of technologies for the BioWatch program: o nucleic-acid signatures detected using polymerase chain re action (PCR)
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... Chapter 3 discusses the role and needs of public health officials and laboratorians in interpreting BioWatch results. Chapter 4 explores the state of the art and potential use of the four families of technologies being considered for the BioWatch program.
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