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This document, "Final Recommendation: Core Processes and EHR Requirements for Public Health Syndromic Surveillance," provides a detailed framework for implementing syndromic surveillance systems within public health organizations. It focuses on the core business processes involved in gathering, analyzing, and responding to potential public health threats using data from emergency departments and urgent care facilities. The document outlines three core business processes: conducting syndrome-based population health monitoring, establishing and maintaining data sharing partnerships, and conducting data quality assurance. These processes are broken down into detailed tasks, including data collection, preprocessing, statistical analysis, and communication with partners and leadership. By standardizing these processes, the document aims to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of public health surveillance efforts and enhance the ability to detect and respond to emerging health threats.

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An Online Training Course

Ever wonder what syndromic surveillance is? How it is applied? This introduction to syndromic surveillance answers your questions and gives you a foundation for understanding how surveillance is used by public health professionals to understand health threats.

 

This video introduces the viewer to the basics of syndromic surveillance and offers a high-level overview of the many uses of this public health tool. Topics covered in this training include:

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The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any individual or organization working on or interested in increasing the quality, utility, and availability of syndromic surveillance data. The goal of this assessment was to collect feedback from members regarding the barriers and challenges to participating in the NSSP CoP activities and utilizing its related tools.

 

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The survey, developed by the ISDS Meaningful Use Business Process Mapping Subgroup, was designed to facilitate conversations between health care facilities and public health departments before and during Meaningful Use implementation and onboarding.

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Presented March 22, 2018.

Are you facing one of the barriers to writing a story about your surveillance data in action listed below?

Barriers:

  • I don't know what a success story is.
  • I’m not sure if I have a story to share.
  • I have a story, but I don't know how to share it with the community
  • I don't have time to document my story

Have you been asked to write a “success story” but you don’t know where to start? Are you not sure what counts as a success?

In response to the Meaningful Use roundtable discussion at the 2011 ISDS Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, ISDS has established a monthly community conference call open to anyone interested in issues relating to Meaningful Use. The purpose of this call is to bring together various stakeholders with a vested interest in this field and spark collaborative efforts to share guidance, resources, and technical assistance.

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