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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 … -
Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing
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In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more… gender, patient home zip code, admitted date and time, visit number, and free- text chief complaint. Approximately … -
Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data
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In order to assess the use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in Indiana, the Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, adopted October 11, 2000, requires the reporting of rabies PEP administration. Indiana is a “home rule” state; that is to say, local… read more… query feature to search for rabies related patient visits. However, a more automated method was desired that … file was developed to execute a SQL query script and email the results in html format. After some … The veterinary epidemiologist receives an auto- generated email each Monday morning, indicating a new data report is … -
Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process
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Currently, Indiana monitors emergency department patient chief complaint data from 73 geographically dispersed hospitals. These data are analyzed using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-… read more… follow-up. An ISDH field epidemiologist was contacted by email, advised of the alert, provided an ESSENCE URL for the … and used anthrax as the agent. Twelve of the 14 patient visits generating the respiratory alert were part of the … -
Expanding the Functionality of Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining and Query Development
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The Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS) currently receives approximately 5,000 near real-time chief complaint messages from 55 hospital emergency departments daily. The ISDH partners with the Regenstrief Institute to… read more… file was developed to execute a SQL query script and email the results in html format to staff. For this initial …