Automated Monitoring of Asthma Using the BioSense System

In 2006, approximately 6.8 million children and 16.1 million adults were reported to have asthma in the US. The CDC BioSense System currently receives data from >540 hospital emergency departments (EDs; 522 send patient chief complaints and 182 send physician diagnoses), and captures about 11% of all U.S. ED visits.

OBJECTIVE

To describe the potential utility of BioSense data for surveillance of asthma.