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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 … receives standards-based HL7 emergency department visit data, including free-text chief complaints from 72 … -
Enhancing Provider Reporting of Notifiable Diseases using HIE-enabled Decision Support
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Traditionally, public health agencies (PHAs) wait for hospital, laboratory or clinic staff to initiate case reports. However, this passive approach is burdensome for reporters and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment… read more… and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of disease in the community and … and produces incomplete and delayed reports, which can hinder assessment of disease in the community and … -
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… the urban public hospital were analyzed for average daily visit volume on weekdays and weekends. The average daily visit volume per hour on weekdays and week- ends was … -
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… deadly tornado struck southern Indiana in 2005. As the ED visit volumes climbed, no false alerts were triggered for … -
Secrets of My Success (and Failures): Productive Practitioner/Researcher Collaboration
Content Type: Webinar
Two public health practitioners will describe their experiences collaborating with University researchers to develop and evaluate new informatics tools for public health. They will identify factors that led to the successes and failures in those… read more… ! Work together seeking grants ! Look for “piggy-back” opportunities 11 Setting ! Denver Health and Hospital … Dollars for people’s time ! Most setbacks were from lack of resources ! Oil: trust & respect ! Learn the … -
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… gate or de-identified form that have capability to link back to identified data when necessary; (c) further develop … program, CDC has the capacity to conduct detailed follow-back assessments with data maintained at CDC (6,7). In … into public health threats may prompt follow-back to individual patients, with the involvement of health …