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Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits
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Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more… with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits … -
Validation of New Jersey Emergency Department (ED) Registration Data in BioSense 2.0
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BioSense 2.0, a redesigned national syndromic surveillance system, provides users with timely regional and national data classified into disease syndromes, with views of health outcomes and trends for use in situational awareness. As of July 2014,… read more… worked with HMS to connect existing data to BioSense. In May, 2013, HMS established a single data feed of New … servers occurs twice daily via SFTP. The average daily visit volume in the transfer is around 10,000 records. This … servers occurs twice daily via SFTP. The average daily visit volume in the transfer is around 10,000 records. This … -
Development and Application of Syndromic Surveillance for Severe Weather Events Following Hurricane Sandy
Content Type: Journal Article
Following Hurricane Superstorm Sandy, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) developed indicators to enhance syndromic surveillance for extreme weather events in EpiCenter, an online system that collects and analyzes… read more… emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. Tsai Stella Hamby Teresa Chu … emergency department (ED) data and classifies each visit by indicator or syndrome. … Development and … -
Development of Mental Health Classification Related to Severe Weather Events
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Real-time emergency department (ED) data are currently received from 78 of 80 New Jersey acute care and satellite EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter system. EpiCenter collects, manages and analyzes ED registration data for… read more… health classification to track emergency department visits for potential needed public health response during … health classification to track emergency department visits for potential needed public health response during …