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  • Integration of Hospital Admissions, Febrile Respiratory Illness Screening and Triage Acuity Score into an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper outlines the integration of hospital admission, Febrile Respiratory Illness (FRI) screening and Canadian Triage and Acuity Score (CTAS) data streams within an Emergency Department Syndromic Surveillance system. These data elements allow… read more
    … postal code of resi- dence, hospital and date and time of visit. DATA ELEMENTS Admission data – The physician’s …
  • 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.
    … metrics (DQ WG) • Develop Data Quality Metrics Script and Visit Level Message Aggregation tools (DQ WG) • Prototype …
  • Data Quality (DQ) Subcommittee Calls

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2026
    • May 2026 - (Topic: Introduction to celebrating successes, Validity report, World Cup data quality poll questions) - Recording…
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    … EHR data center migration issues in Utah, Duplicate visits when patients are admitted to inpatient) - Recording … data most often?, How to query for specific messages/visits, Poll: What topics would you like to discuss (today … Methods for differentiating between Urgent Care and ED visits in ESSENCE when they are reported from the same …
  • Reportable Disease Cluster Detection in the Context of Sporadic Adoption of PCR-based Diagnostic Tests

    Content Type: Use Case

    Materials associated with the Analytic Solutions for Real-Time Biosurveillance: Reportable Disease Cluster Detection in the Context of Sporadic Adoption of PCR-based Diagnostic Tests consultancy call held May 3, at 12 pm ET. Problem… read more
    … of Health and Mental Hygiene Phone: (347) 396-2679 Email: sgreene4@health.nyc.gov Co-submitters and … to the CC/discharge diagnosis fields affect how an ED visit is defined. If the change is substantial, using a …
  • Surveillance in the Cloud: A New Platform for Disease Search and Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    Major challenges in syndromic surveillance today include lack of standardization in syndrome definitions and limited ability to detect outbreaks of specific and rare diseases. To generate situational awareness surveillance results… read more
    … the original data consisting of zip codes and time of visit were randomized. The set of chief complaint data used …
  • Alas! Meaningful EHR Certification for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    Review NIST's draft CEHRT test procedure, data and tools for syndromic surveillance with us! The ONC's 2014 edition of rules for certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) set a new bar for syndromic surveillance messaging capability… read more
    … •  Syndromic Surveillance Test Scenarios –  Urgent Care Visit –  Emergency Department Visit - Patient Dies –  Emergency Department Visit – Patient Admit •  Tests Data –  3 sets of test data …
  • Data for Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented December 6, 2016 Amy Ising presented these slides during the ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop as part of the 2016 ISDS Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. This presentation provices an introduction to Syndromic Surveillance, an overview… read more
    … today with back pain. Fever/Rash GI-Severe Free Text ED visit Data  Syndrome © 2016 University of North Carolina at … ask the coder to document whether or not this healthcare visit is for an initial encounter (code ends in “A”), …
  • Syndrome Definition Development Toolkit

    Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems

    PurposeThe purpose of this document is to standardize and formalize the process for adding new and updating existing syndrome definitions (CCDD Categories) in the NSSP-ESSENCE instance of the BioSense platform. While jurisdictions… read more
    … criteria (primarily ESSENCE regex-based) used to classify visits as [condition]-like or suspect [condition] • Query: … Complaint, but also the Discharge Diagnosis codes the visit received. At the time, the best way to accomplish this …