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The '''[[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]]''' ('''NIOSH''') is the U.S. Federal agency responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related injury and illness. NIOSH is part of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) within the [[United States Department of Health and Human Services|U.S. Department of Health and Human Services]]. NIOSH provides national and world leadership to prevent work-related illness, injury, disability, and death by gathering information, conducting scientific research, and translating the knowledge gained into products and services.  
'''[[Infectious disease informatics]]''' ('''IDI''') is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on "the development of the science and technologies needed for collecting, sharing, reporting, analyzing, and visualizing infectious disease data and for providing data and decision-making support for infectious disease prevention, detection, and management." The field has expanded over time from analyzing [[public health laboratory]] data for potential disease vectors to a more robust syndromic surveillance of epidemiological factors and and to more advanced [[bioinformatics|bioinformatic]] approaches towards microbial, biomarker, and computational research.


NIOSH is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with research laboratories and offices in Cincinnati, Ohio; Morgantown, West Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Denver, Colorado; Anchorage, Alaska; Spokane, Washington; and Atlanta, Georgia. NIOSH is a professionally diverse organization with a staff ceiling of over 1,400 (as of 2005; operating with about 1,300 full-time employees) people representing a wide range of disciplines including epidemiology, medicine, industrial hygiene, safety, psychology, engineering, chemistry, and statistics. NIOSH was established to help ensure safe and healthful working conditions by providing research, information, education, and training in the field of occupational safety and health. ('''[[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health|Full article...]]''')<br />
Infectious disease informatics can help tackle problems and tasks such as optimizing developed antimicrobials, improving vaccines, discovering biomarkers for transmissibility and clinical outcomes of infectious diseases, and developing research into host-pathogen interactions. A few unique considerations must be made in IDI informatics applications, including the confidentiality of any included personal health information (PHI) and the non-binary nature of user access privileges. For example, public health director of a certain region may be able to contribute a dataset for analysis, but they'll have to ensure the right balance of PHI to meet local, state, and federal regulations. ('''[[Infectious disease informatics|Full article...]]''')<br />
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''Recently featured'': [[Ambulatory surgery center]], [[Data center]], [[Carrier cloud]]
''Recently featured'': [[National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health]], [[Ambulatory surgery center]], [[Data center]]

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Infectious disease informatics (IDI) is a multidisciplinary field of science that focuses on "the development of the science and technologies needed for collecting, sharing, reporting, analyzing, and visualizing infectious disease data and for providing data and decision-making support for infectious disease prevention, detection, and management." The field has expanded over time from analyzing public health laboratory data for potential disease vectors to a more robust syndromic surveillance of epidemiological factors and and to more advanced bioinformatic approaches towards microbial, biomarker, and computational research.

Infectious disease informatics can help tackle problems and tasks such as optimizing developed antimicrobials, improving vaccines, discovering biomarkers for transmissibility and clinical outcomes of infectious diseases, and developing research into host-pathogen interactions. A few unique considerations must be made in IDI informatics applications, including the confidentiality of any included personal health information (PHI) and the non-binary nature of user access privileges. For example, public health director of a certain region may be able to contribute a dataset for analysis, but they'll have to ensure the right balance of PHI to meet local, state, and federal regulations. (Full article...)

Recently featured: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Ambulatory surgery center, Data center

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