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  • Content Type: Abstract

    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 … for emergency department (ED), in-patient, and outpatient visits. Compare the characteristics of patients meeting the … surveillance. Methods In-patient, outpatient, and ED visit data from one hospital in RHIO A between June and …
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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 … name, number of emergency department fever syndrome visits, population in that ZIP Code, and the fever syndrome … week. On the maps, emergency department fever syndrome visits are aggregated by patients’ ZIP Codes. The maps are …