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  • BioSense 2.0 Webinar: The Kansas Experience, Health Information Exchanges, and Onboarding

    Content Type: Webinar

    Public health jurisdictions participating in BioSense 2.0 can be on-boarded in several ways, including one hospital at a time or through a health information exchange (HIE). Onboarding through an HIE can simplify the process and ease the burden on… read more
    …  March  26,  2014  –  12:00  PM  –  1:30  PM  EDT   Visit  www.syndromic.org  for  more  information  on …   For  more  information  about  BioSense  2.0,  please  visit  the  BioSense   Redesign  Collaboration  Web  Site …
  • Clostridium Difficile, Surveillance Using Laboratory Data from BioSense Hospitals

    Content Type: Abstract

    To determine the feasibility of using BioSense laboratory data to do surveillance on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) and calculate overall and facility rates of disease.
    … outpatient), admission and discharge dates, and visit denominator data for rate calculations. A patient was …
  • Syndromic Surveillance and Zip Code Data: The Role of Zip Codes in Understanding Populations

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance systems use residential zip codes for spatial analysis to identify disease clusters. However, the use of emergency medical services can be influenced by geographic proximity, specialty services, and severity of illness. We… read more
    … by neighborhood from 21.0 to 64.0 per 1,000. The ED visit rate for Boston residents inversely correlated with …
  • The Day-of-the-Week Effect: A Study Across the Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Complex, highly parameterized data models are often used to detect syndromic outbreaks. Unfortunately, such models can pose greater maintenance challenges as parameter variations increase. As such, our work focuses on whether day… read more
    … or insignificantly across data sources. We found that visit rates by syndrome varied significantly by DoW Further, …
  • Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more
    … gender, patient home zip code, admitted date and time, visit number, and free- text chief complaint. Approximately …
  • ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense's Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements

    Content Type: Abstract

    ESSENCE receives and analyzes data for the Military Health System’s (MHS) 9 million beneficiaries resulting in approximately 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released … read more
    … laboratory results, disposition codes, reason for visit/chief complaints, vital sign data, and additional …
  • Experimental Syndromic Surveillance in Japan Using Three Aspects: OTC, Outpatients Visits and Ambulance Transfer

    Content Type: Abstract

    We started an experimental syndromic surveillance using 1)OTC and 2)outpatients visits, in the last year and included 3)ambulance transfer from this year so as to early detect bioterrorism attack (BTA). 
    … surveillance for OTC sales or for outpatients visit are also prompted. Further information: Y. Ohkusa …
  • Syndromic Surveillance and Influenza-like Illness in Georgia

    Content Type: Abstract

    There are multiple sources of influenza and influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance data within the state of Georgia. These include laboratory surveillance for influenza viruses, sentinel providers that report ILI, pneumonia and… read more
    … and geographic information are re- ceived on each ED visit. Frequencies and percentage of all visits were …