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Map application to the New York state electronic syndromic surveillance system
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The primary goal of the Electronic Syndromic Surveillance system (ESSS) is to monitor trends in non-specific symptoms of illness at the community level in real time. The ESSS includes emergency department chief complaint data that are categorized… read more… the population in that ZIP Code. The fever syndrome visit rates are denoted by three levels of colored dots. In … population in that ZIP Code, and the fever syndrome visit rate (Figure 1). The second component of the … is a weekly statewide display of the fever syndrome visit counts. When requested, statewide fever syndrome maps … -
The evaluation of influenza surveillance data elements for the health information exchange minimum data set
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The American Health Information Community Harmonized Use Case for the Biosurveillance minimum data set (MDS) was implemented to establish data exchange between regional health information organizations (RHIOs) and the New York State Department of… read more… surveillance. Methods In-patient, outpatient, and ED visit data from one hospital in RHIO A between June and … is listed in Table 1. The median days from patient visit date to NYSDOH received date is 1 day for ED, and 2 … oximetry. HIE data (50%) were received within 2 days of visit date. The discrepancy of zip code, diagnosis code, and …