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  • Surveillance of Laboratory-confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Health Information Exchange

    Content Type: Abstract

    During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations reportable. Reporting of influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals and local… read more
    … being explored. A Regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Washington currently sends DOH ICD9 coded discharge … and microbiology laboratory orders and results for all patients admitted to 17 hospitals throughout Washington, … four of the five hospitals in Spokane County. The HIE hospitalization and laboratory data may be a valuable …
  • Influenza surveillance using inpatient health information exchange data

    Content Type: Abstract

    During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations and deaths reportable. As reporting influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals,… read more
    … being explored. A large Health Information Exchange (WA-HIE) currently sends DOH the following data elements on … discharge disposition, and unique identifiers. WA-HIE inpatient data may be valuable for monitoring influenza … being explored. A large Health Information Exchange (WA-HIE) currently sends DOH the following data elements on …
  • All Traffic Related, Washington State Department of Health, 2018

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Objective: Capture all traffic-related injuries presenting to the emergency room regardless of intent or vehicle type to allow monitoring of long-term trends in traffic-related injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holiday, events,… read more
    … Objective: Capture all traffic-related injuries presenting to the emergency … injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holiday, events, weather. Syndromic Surveillance … Diagnosis History Includes text strings as well as all motor vehicle-traffic ICD-10 CM codes (N=449). Explored, …
  • All Traffic Related v2 - Washington State Department of Health, 2019

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Objective: This is an updated to the All Traffic-related submitted in 2018. The goal is to capture all traffic-related injuries presenting for healthcare, regardless of intent or vehicle type, to allow monitoring of long-term trends… read more
    … Objective: This is an updated to the All Traffic-related submitted in 2018. The goal is to … injuries as well as short-term aberrations due to holidays, events, or weather. Syndromic Surveillance … Objective: This is an updated to the All Traffic-related submitted in 2018. The goal is to …
  • Developing, Evaluating, and Disseminating Definitions for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice: A Guidance Document

    Content Type: References

    This document, released February 18, 2019, focuses on several key areas related to syndrome definition creation, including the basics behind a syndrome definition, steps to build a syndrome, evaluation of a new (or old) definition, and dissemination… read more
    … A syndrome definition is comprised of one or all of the following components: 1. Discharge diagnosis … visits and negations to limit false positives. We queried all historical chief complaints in their original form, … Consider which fields may be useful and the pros and cons of each. Being familiar with your data and knowing what …
  • Measles-related syndromes - Washington State Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    In WA, we've been using a series of increasingly broad queries to monitor measles. The number of visits mentioning measles increases during an outbreak as a result of people seeking care because they were (or think) they were exposed, seeking… read more
    … be modified to be so. An outside application is used to de-duplicate records identified by the various definitions … surveillance system: ESSENCE (NSSP) Data sources: All clinical (emergency department, clinic, inpatient) A … be modified to be so. An outside application is used to de-duplicate records identified by the various definitions …
  • Homelessness - Washington State Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The following syndrome was developed to explore emergency department visit records involving people experiencing homelessness. Trends over time, patient demographics, geographic distribution, and primary reasons for seeking care were explored.… read more
    … context and adding information regarding housing status (i.e. staying at a shelter, recently lost housing, chronic … context and adding information regarding housing status (i.e. staying at a shelter, recently lost housing, chronic …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 1): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Nebraska and Washington Implementations

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Our third Meaningful Use webinar continues our discussion on state implementation of inpatient… read more
    … Self-reported pregnancy �  Diagnosis information: �  All diagnoses (ICD9 coded) �  Rank �  Status (Admitting, … �  Consolidate receipt of data feeds through state HIE Hub �  Explore the use of discharge diagnoses & lab …