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Mapping Laboratory Reports to Illinois’ Extensively Drug-Resistant Organism Registry
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CRE are drug-resistant bacteria that have a mortality rate of up to 50% in those infected. Several clusters of CRE have been detected in Illinois, often in long-term acute care hospitals. In response, Illinois created the XDRO registry, a mandatory… read more -
An R Script for Assessment of Data Quality in the BioSense Locker Database
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Syndromic surveillance requires reliable, accurate, and complete healthcare encounter data to assess patterns of illness and respond to public health events. Illinois implemented syndromic surveillance statewide in response to Meaningful Use… read more -
Biosense and Violence: Progress Toward Violence Prevention Using Syndromic Surveillance
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Violence is now clearly recognized as a public health problem. Intentional injuries ranked among the top six leading causes of death for Illinois residents aged 1-44 in 2013. The Illinois Department of Public Health currently collects data on… read more -
National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Quality Workgroup
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To provide community input on data quality issues and enhance data quality through sharing and testing of scripts. Summary of activities: The Data Quality workgroup has worked to address Data Quality issues through the… read more -
Community Engagement among the BioSense 2.0 User Group
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BioSense 2.0 has become a platform for technical receipt and analysis of syndromic surveillance data for many jurisdictions nationwide, as well as a collaborative effort that has engaged a larger community of syndromic surveillance practitioners,… read more -
Leveraging the Master Patient Index in Public Health Surveillance through Collaboration between Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Health Information Exchange
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Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 public health reporting for Eligible Professionals (EPs) included a menu option for ambulatory syndromic surveillance. Review of currently existing models lead to a collaboration between the Illinois Health Information… read more -
Tractable Use Cases for Collaboration in Public Health Surveillance
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The mission of the ISDS TCC is to bridge the gap between the analytic needs of public health practitioners and the expertise of researchers from other fields for the enhancement of disease surveillance, including situational awareness of chronic as… read more