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  • Building Meaningful Use Reporting Infrastructure In NH Through Partnerships

    Content Type: Abstract

    Under the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Rule, hospitals are eligible to receive incentive payments from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services provided they meet certain requirements including Meaningful Use (MU). Demonstrating… read more
    … they meet certain requirements including Meaningful Use (MU). Demonstrating MU requires meeting a core and menu set … (CMS) provided they meet certain requirements including MU. Demonstrating MU requires meeting a core and menu set of … Engine from Orion Health, http://www. orionhealth.com/products/rhapsody/. 2. Orion Health Rhapsody Integration …
  • Urgent Care Data...should we collect, how, and why?

    Content Type: Webinar

    More and more patients frequent Urgent Care facilites. In this webinar, we will discuss how NSSP jurisdictions collect it, how is it formatted, and what have they learned; what's the best way to capture and share this information; and why should we… read more
    … to send different types of information for urgent care visits than ED or inpatient visits (e.g. Admit reason) * What have other NSSP … Lori Darr, ldarr@encorehealthresources.com Dave Atrubin, David.Atrubin@flhealth.gov Sara Imholte, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … suggest (admitted, discharged)? Are there a number of visits with similar presentation times? And do these … individuals also cluster by the emergency department they visited or by their ZIP code? If a cluster is unlikely, … Available from: https://knowledge-repository.s3.amazonaws.com/recommendations/ …
  • Planning for the ICD-10 Transition

    Content Type: Webinar

    The transition of all HIPAA covered entities from the use of ICD­9­CM to ICD­10­CM/PCS codes on October 1, 2015 will create a paradigm change in the use of electronic health record (EHR) data. Many public health surveillance entities that receive,… read more
    …  ICD-­‐10  Implementa6on  Project  charter   approved  May  2011   "   Project  Goal:    Ensure  that  the  staff …  Assessments   "   ICD-­‐10-­‐CM  coding  training  May  –  September  2015   "   Basic  ICD-­‐10-­‐CM  coding …  Email   (percentage  based  on  #  of  opens)   40  (26.5%)   Registered  for  webinar  (percentage   based  on …
  • Surveillance Investigation Tool Development Targeted for Results

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data System is designed to detect early indicators of bioterrorism events and naturally occurring public health threats. Four investigatory tools have been developed with drill-down… read more
    … Flu Sentinel Reports as a percentage of total hospital visits for the 2006-7 Influenza season. Lastly, real-time, …
  • Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 24 December 2009, a female New Hampshire resident was confirmed to have gastrointestinal anthrax on the basis of clinical findings and laboratory testing. Her source of anthrax was not immediately known, so the New Hampshire… read more
    … of emergency department encounters between 1 October and 26 December was conducted immediately after confirmation of … surveillance for possible cases continued between 26 December and 31 January, 2010. DHHS’s statewide emergency … down a pool of nearly 2,00,000 emergency department visits to 62 possible cases requiring further investigation, …
  • Ten Years of Syndromic Surveillance in New Hampshire: Innovation, Experience and Outcomes

    Content Type: Abstract

    In response to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, the NH Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS) engaged state and external partners in the design of an early warning surveillance system to support bioterrorism and emergency… read more
    … expanded to include drill down custom querying for all 26 acute care hospitals (allowing NH to realize statewide ED … STEMS, APHA Annual Conference; 2006. http://apha.confex.- com/apha/134am/techprogram/paper_141309.htm. *David Swenson … 11173 - DOI: 10.3402/ehtj.v4i0.11173 http://apha.confex.com/apha/134am/techprogram/paper_141309.htm …