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  • 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 …
  • Using the Emergency Medical Text Processor to Standardize Chief Complaints in Boston's Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Abbreviation, misspellings, and site specific terminology may misclassify chief complaints syndromes. The Emergency Medical Text Processor (EMT-P) is system that cleans emergency department chief complaints and returns standard terms.… read more
    … system receives daily, de- identified patient-visit data from 10 hospital emer- gency departments in the … ceived every 24 hours, and the chief complaint for each visit is categorized into non-exclusive syndrome groups. … EMT-P on a windows 2003 server with a SQL Server 2005 back- end database. In order to use s same database for the …
  • Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance in Michigan: Routine Analysis and Beyond

    Content Type: Training

    This presentation shared by Michigan covers the introductory basics of syndromic surveillance. This is a part of a web based training that new users have to complete before getting access to the surveillance system in Michigan. 
    … Each message consists of: Patient age, sex, home ZIP code Visit date and time Data exchange and acknowledgement … age, sex, home zip code along with data specific to the visit like visit date and time, facility and words used in the chief …
  • Heat-related Illness - CSTE Heat Workgroup

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This definition is based the following document created by the CSTE Heat Workgroup: Heat-related Illness Syndrome Query: A guidance Document for Implementing Heat-related Illness Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice (attached). The query… read more
    … HIP OR GROIN OR THIGH OR KNEE OR ANKLE OR FOOT OR FEET OR BACK OR NECK OR FLANK OR RED OR JAW OR MOUTH OR TEETH OR … OR TRIED OR USED OR USING OR COLD OR RASH ) ) OR HEAT PACK OR HEATING PAD OR LUMBAGO OR RELIEF OR RESOLVE OR … OR,^KNEE^, OR,^ANKLE^, OR,^FOOT^, OR,^FEET^, OR,^BACK^, OR,^NECK^, OR,^FLANK^, OR,^RED^, OR,^JAW^, …
  • Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more
    … Chief Complaints •Challenges •Tool developed at UNC A Visit to the ED Chief Complaints- Influenza Chief Complaint: … Yellow sputum. Respiratory Fever Rash on chest, spread to back, abd & neck. Fever today with back pain. Aches. Fever …
  • 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 …
  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Creating Syndrome Definitions Using RStudio

    Content Type: Webinar

    When public health practitioners use BioSense 2.0, they can view and analyze data on a variety of predetermined syndromes from infectious diseases (such as influenza) to injuries. However, some users may want to use tools to explore new and… read more
    … Diagnosis_Text, Chief_Complaint, Age, Gender, Visit_Date_Time, Row_Number FROM TC_Meaningful_Use_Base WHERE Visit_Date_Time BETWEEN '2013-02-01 00:00:00' AND … Diagnosis_Text, Chief_Complaint, Age, Gender, Visit_Date_Time, Row_Number FROM TC_Meaningful_Use_Base …