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Novel Emergency Department High Utilizer Surveillance In New Hampshire
Content Type: Abstract
Researchers have demonstrated benefits to identifying and developing interventions for patients that frequently seek healthcare services in the ED. The New Yorker Magazine, recently published an article titled The Hot Spotters, summarizing work… read more… and measured a 40% reduction in hospital inpatient and ED visits and a 56% medical cost reduction for the first 36 Hot … and Policy (OMBP) outpatient Medicaid ED frequency visit study was conducted, which cited that frequent ED … and measured a 40% reduction in hospital inpatient and ED visits and a 56% medical cost reduction for the first 36 Hot … -
Building Meaningful Use Reporting Infrastructure In NH Through Partnerships
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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… lance transmissions on specific patient types (preventing un- wanted types), receive MU ELR and immunization data … *David Swenson E-mail: dswenson@dhhs.state.nh.us (page number not for … -
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… when an hospital system uses one product for multiple visit types Fields not mapped System/local resource issues … to send different types of information for urgent care visits than ED or inpatient visits (e.g. Admit reason) * … -
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… " Reportable disease aler6ng (includes email alerts) NH’s Transi6on Ac6vi6es " … Number of People ISDS Sent Announcement via E-‐mail 2240 Opened Announcement 480 (23%) Clicked … -
Use of emergency department data for case finding following a community anthrax exposure
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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… 2Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH, USA E-mail: dswenson@dhhs.state.nh.us Objective This paper … down a pool of nearly 2,00,000 emergency department visits to 62 possible cases requiring further investigation, … -
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 … Disease Surveillance Section Phone: (603) 271-7366 Email: David.S wenson@dhhs.nh.gov * … -
Surveillance Investigation Tool Development Targeted for Results
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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, … -
Ten Years of Syndromic Surveillance in New Hampshire: Innovation, Experience and Outcomes
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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… *David Swenson E-mail: swensd@comcast.net (page number not for citation …