In the first quarter of 2012, the CDC awarded 9 health departments BioSense Challenge Grants to accelerate local system integration with BioSense 2.0. On Friday, October 4th from 1:00-2:00 pm EDT, ISDS and the BioSense Redesign Team will host a BioSense Redesign webinar featuring reports from two 2012 Challenge Grant recipients. During this webinar, you will learn about the solutions that surveillance professionals in New Jersey and Maine developed with their challenge grants. Tips for recruiting new data providers, use of BioSense for routine surveillance work, as well as lessons learned from the on-boarding will be covered. State and local public health professionals working to leverage BioSense services for their day-to-day surveillance duties will find this webinar informative.
Presenters
Teresa Hamby, MSPH, Data Analyst, New Jersey Department of Health
Edward Castagna, BA (Math & Computer Science), Programmer 3, Maine Department of Health and Human Services
Amy Robbins, MPH, Epidemiologist/Data Manager, Maine Deparmtent of Health and Human Services
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the necessary steps for sharing syndromic surveillance data with BioSense
- Describe how to validate that the correct amount of data are being sent
- Discuss challenges to setting up the BioSense data feed, including transport mechanisms and mapping of variables
- Describe the time and resource needs for setting up a data feed to BioSense
- Identify data and system quality concerns
Date and Time
Friday, October 4, 2013 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET (17:00 - 18:00 GMT)
Hosts
ISDS and the BioSense Redesign Team (more information about this webinar series)