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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 … -
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 … deadly tornado struck southern Indiana in 2005. As the ED visit volumes climbed, no false alerts were triggered for … -
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 … the Emergency Operations Center three times a day via e-mail. The query used the following terms: ‘ˆheatˆ, or, … -
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… of clinic hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public hospital were analyzed for average daily visit volume on weekdays and weekends. The average daily … -
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… State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest” 2 min Shandy 18 - New Hampshire … to monthly newsletters that we produce and our monthly email reminders to groups, we have developed engagement … syndromic surveillance practitioners. Members also had to email us if they wanted to find out who had expertise 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… doi: 10.1136/jamia.2009.000539. *Roland Gamache E-mail: rgamache@iupui.edu (page number not for citation …