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  • 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
    … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization … allows for tailored syndrome queries and can monitor ED visits related to heroin overdose at the local, state, … near real-time ED data on approximately two-thirds of ED visits in the US. NSSP’s data analysis and visualization …
  • S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … of the initiative as well as describe how the initiative may affect a standard language for biosurveillance … of the initiative as well as describe how the initiative may affect a standard language for biosurveillance …
  • Why You Should Participate in HHS (Health and Human Services) Regional Epi Groups

    Content Type: Abstract

    One of the early successes for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program'™s (NSSP'™s) BioSense Platform was community agreement on what should make up national and regional picture of the data. For NSSP to meet program objectives, National level… read more
    … HHS Region level data that can provide insight into what may be happening around the country. Epidemiologists can … HHS Region level data that can provide insight into what may be happening around the country. Epidemiologists can …