Public Health Surveillance in the VHA: evaluation of the PraediCo surveillance system

Early threat detection and situational awareness are vital to achieving a comprehensive and accurate view of health-related events for federal, state and local health agencies. Key to this are public health and syndromic surveillance systems that can analyze large data sets to discover patterns, trends and correlations of public health significance. In 2020, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) evaluated its public health surveillance system and identified areas for improvement.

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