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Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
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… we hope today’s discussion can translate to the work you all are doing in your own CoPs. 1 What is a Community of … recently created Colored are supported by NSSP resources All groups are encouraged Doesn’t show all collaborations … 3-4 min Cat To help build up the CoP, we built up our website If have time, demo and focus on: Community Calendar … -
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing
Content Type: Abstract
When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more… heightened local surveillance during mass gatherings due to concerns about increased risk of disease outbreaks. … For the first time, in 2007, health departments in all three Super Bowl-related regions already practiced daily … heightened local surveillance during mass gatherings due to concerns about increased risk of disease outbreaks. … -
Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave
Content Type: Abstract
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… or pneumonia. Conclusions Although the current query did produce a few ‘false positives’, the MCPHD staff has … 11 Date of Emergency Department Visit C o u n t o f P at ie n ts Fig. 1. Heat-Related Chief Complaints, Marion … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … -
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… were performed as requested but the patient records did not indicate if the procedure was prompted due to the alert or because the patient presented with … is underway to better understand why these encounters did not provide a notification to the MCPHD. Several MCPHD … -
Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System
Content Type: Abstract
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… to carbon monoxide in their home. While this finding did not uncover a widespread public health threat, it did provide the first empirical evidence that Indiana’s … a field investigation. Although laboratory testing did not identify a causative organism, investigation by … -
Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities
Content Type: Abstract
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… health nurses to verify that a patient has returned for all five of the recommended prophylaxis treatments, thereby … a residence as a result of improper heating methods due to a discontinuation of utility services, the specialist … -
Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours
Content Type: Abstract
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… surveil- lance data to examine daily trends in emergency de- partment (ED) volume at an urban public hospital. … be evidence of clinic hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public …