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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… for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the … New York State Department of Health, Albany, NY, USA E-mail: hgc04@health.state.ny.us Objectives Evaluate the … for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the … -
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… map, counts of emergency department fever syndrome visits are aggregated, and displayed as a rate (per 100,000 … 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 …