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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 …
  • 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) * …
  • 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 … Project Manager Infectious Disease Surveillance Section Phone: (603) 271-7366 Email: David.S wenson@dhhs.nh.gov * …
  • 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
    …  Manager   NC    DHHS,  Division  of  Public  Health   Phone:    (919)  707-­‐5067   Email:   …  Manager   Infec:ous  Disease  Surveillance  Sec:on   Phone:    (603)  271-­‐7366   Email:   …
  • 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
    … down a pool of nearly 2,00,000 emergency department visits to 62 possible cases requiring further investigation, …