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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
    … NH is building a NH Heath Information Exchange to serve all NH's MU needs including those of public health. This … practice. NH is building a NH Heath Information Exchange (HIE) to serve all NH’s MU needs including those of public health. This not … NH is building a NH Heath Information Exchange to serve all NH's MU needs including those of public health. This …
  • 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
    … The transition of all HIPAA covered entities from the use of ICD­9­CM to …   Agenda   "   Descrip6on   "   The  transi6on  of  all  HIPAA  covered  en66es  from  the  use   of … The transition of all HIPAA covered entities from the use of ICD­9­CM to …
  • 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
    … (2) early detection of naturally occur- ring outbreaks (i.e., influenza). The OTC pharmaceutical system was … later expanded to include drill down custom querying for all 26 acute care hospitals (allowing NH to realize … and identified reportable disease occur- rences (i.e., Lyme disease) and nonreportable clusters (i.e., carbon …
  • Preliminary Look into the ICD9/10 Transition Impact on Public Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    On October 1, 2015, the number of ICD codes will expand from 14,000 in version 9 to 68,000 in version 10. The new code set will increase the specificity of reporting, allowing more information to be conveyed in a single code. It is anticipated that… read more
    … and 5) Adjusting for changes in trends over time that are due to transitions in usage of codes by providers and … and 5) Adjusting for changes in trends over time that are due to transitions in usage of codes by providers and …
  • 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 …
  • 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
    … and Interpertation.ppt Submitted by elamb on Sat, 01/26/2019 - 18:32 … data at or near this level? Across different strata (i.e., age groups, hospitals)? Do the data show the same … draw conclusions or interpretations, has excluded all null hypotheses, and is satisfied all of the important …