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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 … -
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 … -
Placing surveillance in a preparedness business process framework
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Most public health workers could reach agreement on the general functions and operations regarding public health’s traditional operations, such as food safety inspections, outbreak investigations, or immunization clinics. However, there is much less… read more… FL, USA; and 2CMA Consulting, Kansas City, MO, USA E-mail: jgibson@hhcorp.org Objective The Public Health … -
Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more… sur- veillance parameters such as the date of health care visits, the Zip code or country of residence are considered …