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Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities
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Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more… receives standards-based HL7 emergency department visit data, including free-text chief complaints from 72 … receives standards-based HL7 emergency department (ED) visit data, including free-text chief complaints from 72 … to arrange payment for proper heating. Weather related visits Using custom queries in ESSENCE, MCHD looks for ED … -
Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours
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In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more… The county’s public hospital and clinic network provide care for 1 in 3 county residents who are Medicaid enrollees … the need for extended hours at eight public primary care clinics in Marion County, Indiana, this study … Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours Jutieh Lincoln, MPH, Kevin Stevens, MPH, … -
Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System
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In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more… system (PHESS) receives approximately 5,000 daily ED visits as real-time HL7 formatted surveillance data from 55 … Indiana’s PHESS receives approximately 5,000 daily ED visits as real-time HL7 formatted surveillance data from 55 … on site at the time of the inspection. The health care provider who treated the affected patients did not … -
Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave
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In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… disease outbreaks. Today, about 1600 emergency department visits occur daily in Marion County's 14 emergency … disease outbreaks. Today, about 1600 emergency department visits occur daily in Marion County’s 14 emergency … of 21 people meeting the search criteria and seeking care at this emergency department between June 1, 2011, and … -
Patient Management System Programmed Alert to Notify Providers of Suspected TB Cases
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An increase in tuberculosis (TB) among homeless men residing in Marion County, Indiana was noticed in the summer of 2008. The Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD) hosted screening events at homeless shelters in hopes of finding… read more… Regenstrief Institute (RI) to create an alert for health care providers who use the Gopher patient management system … strategies must be used to reach this population for care. Health informatics can be an aid to public health in … Regenstrief Institute (RI) to create an alert for health care providers who use the Gopher patient management system … -
HL7 balloting process for the Implementation Guide for Syndromic Surveillance
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Syndromic surveillance seeks to systematically leverage health-related data in near "real-time" to understand the health of communities at the local, state, and federal level. The product of this process provides statistical insight on disease… read more… such clinical data provided by hospitals and urgent care centers to PHAs are authorized applicable local and … such clinical data provided by hospitals and urgent care centers to PHAs are authorized applicable local and … -
Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance
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These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more… Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview Collaboration Urgent Care Justification Workgroup (now Sub-Committee) and the … State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest” 2 min Shandy 18 - New Hampshire …