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A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of Biodefense & Disaster Medicine on MedTechIQ!

Colleagues,

As reported in Federal Health Update...The Institute of medicine (IOM) published "Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems: BioWatch and the Public Health System. Interim Report", on Feb. 10, 2009.

This interim report outlines the Committee on Effectiveness of National Biosurveillance Systems efforts to evaluate the Department of Homeland security's BioWatch program, including a comparison of costs and benefits for the current generation and planned next generation of BioWatch technology; the costs and benefits of an enhanced national surveillance system that relies on U.S. hospitals and the U.S. public health system; and the effectiveness of this approach compared to that of the current BioWatch program. The final report is due in June 2009....

Read on at: http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3740/58811/62347.aspx

ENJOY!

CC

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