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  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Syndrome Definitions Workgroup - Report

    Content Type: Report

    This report summarizes a series of seven meetings of the Syndrome Definition Workgroup held in 2014 and 2015. Objective To review, validate, and modify syndromes and provide community input on a process to update or… read more
  • TN Onboarding Presentation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides summarize the process in Tennessee for onboarding hospitals' syndromic surveillance data into BioSense.
  • Special Event Data

    Content Type: Use Case

    Problem Summary A truncated historical dataset is provided from one or more subregions with multiple participating hospitals with enough variety in the patient volume and demographics to make the problem challenging and to generate alerting… read more
  • Extreme Weather Surveillance

    Content Type: Use Case

    Problem Summary Given the background of climate change, there is an increasing demand for public health to characterize weather-related illness. The public health impact of extreme heat or cold events can be characterized from Emergency… read more
  • Data Quality

    Content Type: Use Case

    Problem Summary Data collection across a growing stream of contributing facilities and variables requires automated, consistent, and efficient monitoring of quality. Epidemiologists tasked with analyzing syndromic data need to be confident in the… read more
  • ICD-10-CM Conversion

    Content Type: References

    Curated list of documents supporting the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS. For more information about the project, visit the project description page on… read more
  • Implications of ICD-9/10 CM Transition for Public Health Surveillance: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned from Multiple Sectors of Public Health

    Content Type: Abstract

    This roundtable provided a forum for a diverse set of representatives from the local, state, federal and international public health care sectors to share tools, resources, experiences, and promising practices regarding the potential impact of the… read more
  • R Training for BioSense 2.0

    Content Type: Training

    The topics covered in this training include an introduction to the R statistical package, downloading and installation of R, data management including importing datasets, generating data subsets, adding new variables, how to generate descriptive… read more