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  • Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey

    Content Type: Abstract

    On July 11, 2012, New Jersey Department of Health (DOH) Communicable Disease Service (CDS) surveillance staff received email notification of a statewide anomaly in EpiCenter for Paralysis. Two additional anomalies followed within three hours. Since… read more
    … Paralysis Analysis: Investigating Paralysis Visit Anomalies in New Jersey …
  • 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. …
  • Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII – New Jersey, 2014

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the summer of 2013, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) began planning for Super Bowl XLVIII to be held on February 2, 2014, in Met Life Stadium, located in the Meadowlands of Bergen County. Surveillance and epidemiology staff in the… read more
    … time. As of February, 2014, 75 of New Jersey’s 81 acute care and satellite emergency departments (EDs) were … system. CDS staff primarily used EpiCenter to monitor ED visits for unusual activity and disease outbreaks during … implemented enhanced reports and expanded monitoring of visit complaints. Objective To describe the surveillance …
  • Validation of New Jersey Emergency Department (ED) Registration Data in BioSense 2.0

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … receives registration data from 75 of NJ’s 80 acute care and satellite emergency departments. EpiCenter is a … servers occurs twice daily via SFTP. The average daily visit volume in the transfer is around 10,000 records. This … receives registration data from 75 of NJ’s 80 acute care and satellite emergency departments. EpiCenter is a …
  • Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Development of Mental Health Classification Related to Severe Weather Events

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … are currently received from 78 of 80 New Jersey acute care and satellite EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s … health classification to track emergency department visits for potential needed public health response during … are currently received from 78 of 80 New Jersey acute care and satellite EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s …
  • Identifying Clusters of Rare and Novel Words in Emergency Department Chief Complaints

    Content Type: Abstract

    A goal of biosurveillance is to identify incidents that require a public health response. The challenge is creating specific definitions of such incidents so they can be detected. In syndromic surveillance, this is accomplished by classifying… read more
    … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only … data streams. For unique or rare events, it is hard to know in advance how they will be described or … data into categories, and then looking for increases in visits related to those categories. This approach can only …
  • HAI Surveillance Enhancement within EpiCenter by Utilization of Triage Notes

    Content Type: Abstract

    In New Jersey, Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter collects chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance from 79 of 80 emergency departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for… read more
    … departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for … receiving treatment for a health condition in a health care setting. Following the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West … departments (ED). Using keyword algorithms, these visits are classified into syndrome categories for …