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Administrative and syndromic surveillance data can enhance public health surveillance
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Healthcare data, including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health community for multiple purposes, including programmatic and surveillance activities. These data are collected through… read more -
User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCE
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As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data sources and parameters needed for their query. Then they select from the available output options (e.g., time series, table builder, data details).… read more -
S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance
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The S&I Framework is an Office of National Coordinator (ONC) initiative designed to support individual working groups who focus on a specific interoperability challenge. One of these working groups within the S&I Framework is the PHRI, which… read more -
Enhancing Surveillance on the BioSense Platform through Improved Onboarding Processes
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In 2017, the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) continued to expand as a national scope data source with over 6,500 facilities registered on the BioSense Platform, including 4,000 active, 1,800 onboarding, and 700 planned or inactive… read more -
Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program
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Overdose deaths involving opioids (i.e., opioid pain relievers and illicit opioids such as heroin) accounted for at least 63% (N = 33,091) of overdose deaths in 2015. Overdose deaths related to illicit opioids, heroin and illicitly-manufactured… read more -
An ISDS-Based Initiative for Conventions for Biosurveillance Data Analysis Methods
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Twelve years into the 21st century, after publication of hundreds of articles and establishment of numerous biosurveillance systems worldwide, there is no agreement among the disease surveillance community on most effective technical methods for… read more -
Disaster Surveillance: Perspectives from Federal, State, and Local levels
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In this panel, the presenters will discuss their perspective in responding to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25th and over the course of 4 days dropped approximately 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and… read more -
Customizing ESSENCE Queries for Select Mental Health Sub-indicators
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Syndromic surveillance systems, although initially developed in response to bioterrorist threats, are increasingly being used at the local, state, and national level to support early identification of infectious disease and other emerging threats to… read more