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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… monitors the BioSense website. From February through May 2005, all Sentinel Alerts reported on the BioSense … of system improvement. RESULTS From February through May 2005, 8 Sentinel Alerts were issued for NYS on the … mation: patient age, gender, coded patient ID and/or visit ID. Although all 8 alerts were determined to be “false …