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  • Using Business Intelligence Tools to Automate Data Capture and Reporting

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    The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) serves public health users across NC at the local, regional and state levels, providing early event detection and situational awareness capabilities. At the… read more
    … different data feeds daily including emergency department visits, emergency medical service runs, poison center calls, … data feeds daily including emergency department (ED) visits, emergency medical service (EMS) runs, poison center … funding. Appropriate use of business intelligence tools may prove valuable in accomplishing these goals. …
  • Using NC DETECT for Comprehensive Morbidity Surveillance on Poisoning and Overdose

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    A retrospective analysis of emergency department data in NC for drug and opioid overdoses has been explained previously [1]. We built on this initial work to develop new poisoning and surveillance reports to facilitate near real time surveillance by… read more
    … NC DETECT data are near real time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code … NC DETECT data are near real time and over 75% of ED visits receive at least one ICD-9-CM final diagnosis code …
  • Evaluation of Pedestrian/Bicycle Crash Injury Case Definitions for Use with NC DETECT

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    Over the last few decades, the United States has made considerable progress in decreasing the incidence of motor vehicle occupants injured and killed in traffic collisions.1 However, there is still a need for continued motor vehicle crash (MVC)… read more
    … and bicycle crash-related emergency department (ED) visits in North Carolina's statewide syndromic surveillance … and bicycle crash-related emergency department (ED) visits in North Carolina's statewide syndromic surveillance …
  • Informing Public Health Prevention in NC Using Falls Surveillance Data

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    Falls are a leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injury in NC. As the size of the older adult population is predicted to increase over the next few decades, it is likely that the incidence of falls-related morbidity and mortality will increase in… read more
    … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North … hospital discharge, and emergency department (ED) visit data, to inform falls prevention activities in North …
  • Securing protected health information in NC DETECT

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    NC DETECT receives daily data files from emergency departments (ED), the statewide EMS data collection system, the statewide poison center, and veterinary laboratory test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected… read more
    … test results. Included in these data are elements, which may contain Protected Health Information (PHI). It is the … USA on 1–2 December 2010. References 1 45 CFR Part 142, y 142.308 (c). ‘Technical security services to guard data … confidentiality and availability.’ 2 45 CFR Part 142, y 142.308 (d). ‘Technical security mechanisms.’ Securing PHI …
  • Improving syndromic surveillance for non-power users: NC DETECT dashboards

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    NC DETECT provides near-real-time statewide surveillance capacity to local, regional and state level users across NC with twice daily data feeds from 117 (99%) emergency departments (EDs), hourly updates from the statewide poison center, and daily… read more
    … that functionality specifically tailored to LHDs may increase their use of the NC DETECT Web application [1]. … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 …
  • Improving System Ability to Identify Symptom Complexes in Free-Text Data

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    Text-based syndrome case definitions published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)1 form the basis for the syndrome queries used by the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). Keywords within these… read more
    … ('%') indicate that zero or more characters of any type may substitute for the wildcard.2 The term “ha” as a synonym … ('%') indicate that zero or more characters of any type may substitute for the wildcard.2 The term “ha” as a synonym … SQL Server 2005 Books Online, http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library /ms174214.aspx, Accessed June 29, 2006. …
  • Triage Notes in Syndromic Surveillance – A Double Edged Sword

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    The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the hospital level and received by public health for syndromic surveillance. The triage note, a free text expansion on the chief complaint, is one of the many… read more
    … The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the … Wed, 09/20/2017 - 10:07 … The advent of Meaningful Use (MU) has allowed for the expansion of data collected at the …