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The New York State Department of Health’s Syndromic Surveillance System
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The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System consists of five components: 1. Emergency Department (ED) Phone Call System monitors unusual events or clusters of illnesses in the EDs of participating hospitals;… read more… of Defense and Veterans Administration outpatient care clinical data (ICD-9-CM diag-noses and CPT procedure … ED Surveillance System monitors ED chief complaint (CC) data; 3. Medicaid data system monitors Medicaid-paid … Defense (DOD) and Veterans Administration (VA) outpatient care clinical data (ICD-9-CM diag- noses and CPT procedure … -
The New York State BioSense Sentinel Alert Experience
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In addition to monitoring Emergency Department chief complaint data and pharmacy sales as indicators of outbreaks, the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Syndromic Surveillance System also monitors information from the… read more… mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false … -
The Application of Enhanced Signal Analyses to Medicaid Data
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The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) currently applies EARS’s CuSum analyses to Medicaid Over the Counter and Prescription Medications data obtained from the Office of Medicaid Management's data warehouse. Daily drug category… read more… as these could be used to decrease the noise of the stan- dard CuSum analysis. In the two days from which these 4 …