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  • National Syndromic Surveillance Implementation Plan for ESSENCE and SAS - 8/14/15 Draft

    Content Type: Report

    This document is a DRAFT Implementation Plan from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for software development from July 2015 to December 2016.  At the in-person Governance meeting in June 2015, the CDC agreed to provide… read more
    … Master clean-up Collapsing of records into a “patient visit event” Data Landscape and Current Data Flow Four core … Rules: 1) Blank Facility ID 2) Blank Patient ID 3) No Visit Date 3 DoD/VA States 3 Binning 1 HL7 / Mirth 8 …
  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Data Sharing Workgroup - Report

    Content Type: Report

    This report summarizes a series of Data Sharing Workgroups that occurred in 2014 and 2015. Purpose of the workgroups: To provide community input on topics related to data sharing functionalities in the BioSense platform. Summary of work: The… read more
    … regional aggregate data across borders. BioSense provides visit-level access based on the facilities in a data source. … were seen in a facility in another state (without sharing visit-level data with entire jurisdiction). 4 Fully … residents of jurisdiction regardless of jurisdiction of visit). Finally, BSDSWG has also discussed the need for …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 1

    Content Type: Report

    Surveillance professionals from six states and one local public health agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Region 1 planned and attended the 2-day Workshop. Workshop attendees elected to explore how data sharing can… read more
    … • Access to syndromic surveillance emergency department visit data; and • The tools necessary to prepare, analyze, … the blank  IT at participating hospitals  Personality  Lack of experience  Time (competing priorities)  Legal …
  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 10

    Content Type: Report

    The HHS Region 10 workshop engaged nine participants from state and local public health departments in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington with experience in syndromic surveillance that ranged from less than 1 year to over 10 years. Representatives from… read more
    … illness (ILI) surveillance using regional health center visit data with an aim of better understanding the practical … barriers, and solutions to sharing health center visit data among jurisdictions in HHS Region 10 and with the … saw very minimal gains across all categories. The lack of concrete data used at the Workshop likely …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … designated health outcome. EDs may update individual visit data, providing discharge (i.e., post-visit) diagnosis codes (i.e., diagnosis or external cause … As the diagnosis codes are assigned at the end of the visit when all the information (e.g., laboratory test) is …
  • Functional Priorities Activity Report

    Content Type: Report

    The purpose of this document is to correlate BioSense activities (inclusive of CDC, BGG, User Community) with community defined functional priorities.
    … issues relating to discordance of data between front end/back end and line level exports • • • • • 2 Create and … metrics (DQ WG) • Develop Data Quality Metrics Script and Visit Level Message Aggregation tools (DQ WG) • Prototype …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Regional Data Sharing Workshop: HHS Region 5

    Content Type: Report

    Thirteen surveillance professionals from seven state and local public health agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service (HHS) Region 5 planned and participated in the 2-day Workshop. The participants selected data sharing… read more
    … increasingly accessible to PHAs. For every PHA, 100% ED visit coverage is an achievable goal and the tools for … participating in and providing emergency department visit data to the nationwide BioSense 2.0 syndromic … case definitions using electronic emergency department visit data records; 2. Applied and evaluated analysis plans …
  • 2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results

    Content Type: Report

    The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any… read more
    … Libraries. Additionally, several respondents reported a lack of time to use these tools while some were not aware of … (e.g., forums, messaging). I don't know if this is due to lack of awareness, ability to do so, intimidation, or … and virtual collaboration tools. ISDS proposes that the lack of willingness of NSSP CoP members to engage in virtual …