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  • Building a Community of Practice

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented September 27, 2018. This presentation offers practical tips on how to create a successful and sustainable community of practice. Presenter Deborah W. Gould, PhD., Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance,… read more
    … 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348 • Visit: http://www.cdc.gov | Contact CDC at: 1-800-CDC-INFO …
  • Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #1: Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity - Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing results

    Content Type: Webinar

    This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more
    … to distinguish overdoses from other drug-related ED visits � Withdrawal and detox � Abscesses or sores related … criteria � Facilities that are “emergency”; patient visit for “emergency” � Individuals ages 11 and older � First encounter visits for acute overdose (e.g., 7th character of ICD-10-CM …
  • Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented at the Enhanced State Opioid Overdose Surveillance (ESOOS) Program Overview Partner meeting, led by CDC and organized by ASTHO in March of 2019.  Presenters Puja Seth, PhD – Lead, Epidemiology… read more
    … sources ▪ Two sources: – Near real-time syndromic data (visit information within 24-48 hours) – Lagged hospital … Q3 2018 (as of January 15, 2019) ▪ Total number of ED visits per quarter ▪ Stratified by state, sex, age group, …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 4): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the New York City Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    Our final Meaningful Use Dialogue will provide insight into New York City’s use of ambulatory EHR records. Steve Di Lonardo and Dr. Winfred Wu plan to discuss the potential benefits, limitations and challenges of extracting data from ambulatory… read more
    … fever, cough, etc..)  When are they documenting? (during visit or transcribed at a few days later?)  Billing codes …
  • Community-based Health Systems Strengthening: Randomized, Controlled Trial of a Mobile Health Intervention in Nepal

    Content Type: Webinar

    Globally, over seven million children under the age of five die each year. A suite of interventions, including safe delivery care, neonatal care and resuscitation, and management of childhood diarrhea, malnutrition, and pneumonia, can prevent many… read more
    …  networks  of  real  people  at  scale   World  mobile  phone  usage  map   2)  Get  them  func(oning  mobile … 1%   14%   4%   3%   0.29%   74%   26%   Overall Patient Visits by Type - Mangsir 2069 New Antenatal Visits Health Post Deliveries Postnatal Visits Family …
  • Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting Practices in Miami-Dade County

    Content Type: Abstract

    To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare practitioners in order to improve communicable disease reporting
    … SAS 9.1.3. RESULTS In 2007, there was a mean of 2,356 ED visits per day and a mean of 10.2 visits that had a queried reportable disease in the chief … information about the reportable disease list via email, phone, mail, and on-site hospital visits. Advances in …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo

    Content Type: Abstract

    The University of Washington has been working since 2000 with partners in Washington State to advance bioterrorism (BT) detection and preparedness. This project collects data on patients presenting with influenza-like … read more
    … (SSIC) Peninsula system has collected 58,542 hospital visits of interest (potentially of infectious nature), and a baseline of 123,285 (total visits) records total. Of these visits of interest, 28,624 … info, contact Bryant Karras at bkarras@u.washington.edu, phone 206-221-6676, or view our web site at …
  • Identifying a Meningitis Case through Syndromic Surveillance: An Example of Detecting Events of Public Health Importance and Improving Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data for situational awareness.
    … analyzes multiple traditional (such as emergency room visits, private provider visits) and non-traditional (such as over-the- counter drug … for the Mary- land region: ESSENCE data revealed 18 coded visits associated with neurological disease compared to …