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  • BioSense Real-Time Data Initiative: Improving Emergency Preparedness- Monitoring Injury Sub-Syndromes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Analysis of the BioSense data facilitates the identification, tracking, and management of emergent and routine health events, including potential bioterrorism events, injury related incidents and rapidly spreading naturally occurring events (1).… read more
    … Nelson Arboleda MD, MPH, narboleda@cdc.gov http://www.cdc.gov/biosense/ Advances in Disease Surveillance …
  • Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to the BioSense System, 2006-2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems typically receive free- text chief complaint and coded diagnosis data, however this data has limited specificity for notifiable disease surveillance. The Biosense System receives chief complaint and/or diagnosis data from… read more
    … Agents. October 23, 2003. Available at: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/surveillance/syndromedef/ Advances in Disease …
  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … however, a technical glitch lets an old facility ID value come through. The site administrator wants to convert this … contact CDC 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636) TTY: 1-888-232-6348 www.cdc.gov The findings and conclusions in this report are …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348 Visit: hQp://www.cdc.gov | Contact CDC at: 1-800-CDC-INFO or hQp://www.cdc.gov/info The findings and conclusions in this report …
  • Geographic Categorization Methods Used in BioSense

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a CDC initiative to promote situational awareness through summarizing, analyzing, and presenting health related event information. Among the data sources collected and analyzed through the BioSense application are the Department of… read more
    … Walker1, MPH, John F. Quinn III4, BS, Kenneth L. Cox5, Col, USAF, MC, SFS 1BioIntelligence Center, Centers for …
  • The BioSense Influenza Module

    Content Type: Abstract

    BioSense is a national system that receives, analyzes, and visualizes electronic health data and makes it available for public health use. In December 2007 CDC added the Influenza Module to the main BioSense application.… read more
    … codes for acute respi- ratory illness (ARI) (ICD-9-CM codes 460-466 or 480-487). Data from all sources are … CONCLUSIONS The BioSense Influenza Module collates and co- presents traditional and automated influenza surveil- …
  • Surveillance of West Nile Virus Activity Using Biosense Laboratory Test Order Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    West Nile Virus (WNV) is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause meningitis and encephalitis. Since its discovery in New York City during an encephalitis outbreak in 1999, WNV has become endemic in North America. In the United States, 16,000 human WNV… read more
    … I. Tokars, MD1, Roseanne English1, Theresa L. Smith, MD2, Col- leen Bradley, MSPH1, Leslie Sokolow1,3, Henry Rolka, …
  • Analyses of National Syndromic Surveillance Data: Real-Time Hospital, Veterans Affairs (VA) & Department of Defense (DoD) Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since July 2004 the BioSense program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has received data from DoD military and VA outpatient clinics (not in real time). In January 2006 real-time hospital data (e.g. chief complaints and… read more
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