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  • Using Syndromic Surveillance and Climatic Data to Detect High Intensity HFMD Seasons

    Content Type: Abstract

    Hand, foot, and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease common among early childhood populations caused by human enteroviruses (Enterovirus genus).1 The enteroviruses responsible for HFMD generally cause mild illness among children in the… read more
    … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among … in emergency department (ED) and urgent care center (UCC) visits for hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) among …
  • A Probabilistic Case-finding Algorithm for Chronic Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    There is a clear need for improved surveillance of chronic diseases to guide public health practice and policy. Chronic disease surveillance has tended to use administrative data, due to the need to link encounters for an individual over time and to… read more
    … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While … a patient to have one hospitalization or two physician visits within two years with a diagnostic code for DM. While …
  • HL7 Version 2.5.1 PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department, Urgent Care and Inpatient Settings, Release 2.0, NIST Clarifications and Validation Guidelines, Version 1.5 (July 2016)

    Content Type: Messaging Standard

    This document lists conformance testing issues and associated policies derived by NIST, in collaboration with the CDC, based on a review of the HL7 Version 2.5.1 PHIN Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department, Urgent Care,… read more
    … added regarding OBX-5.4, OBX-5.5, OBX-5.6 in Facility/Visit Type OBX segment with CWE in OBX-2 for messages in the SS-UC-1_UC_Visit_Influenza_Child Test Case July 19, 2016 NIST … surveillance, SHALL have the same value for PV1- 19.1 (Visit ID). The NIST test tool will not test conformance …
  • Syndromic Surveillance to Monitor Wildfire Events

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In recent years, Washington State has experienced episodes of degraded air quality from wildfires burning within the state, as well as surrounding states and provinces. Wildfire smoke, particularly the high concentrations of small particulate matter… read more
    … across the state (maximum and average), total ED visit volume, respiratory effects (e.g., general, asthma, … were removed. For example, timeseries of daily visit counts were converted to visit percent in order to remove the appearance of increases … maximum PM2.5 and smoke-related emergency department visit counts in Washington State. …
  • BioSense Platform Admin Tool Requirements Discussion

    Content Type: Webinar

    The BioSense Platform features a tool giving site administrators control over how their data are shared. Thanks to a workgroup the BioSense Governance Group convened last year, CDC now has a good idea of what data-sharing capabilities users want in… read more
    … aggregate data across borders !  BioSense provides visit-level access !  Regions need ability to view patients … seen in another state facility (without sharing visit-level data with entire jurisdiction) Fully … •  Functional Requirements Table !  For(more(informa2on,(visit(the( Public(Health(Informa2cs(Ins2tute(website( …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of ICD-9 Based Syndromic Surveillance System in a Rural Emergency Department, Michigan 2004

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of syndromic surveillance systems to assist with the timely detection of unusual health events first occurred prior to the events of September 11, 2001. In the State of Michigan a pilot project with emergency departments began collecting… read more
    … in subgroups including sex, age group, day of week of visit, month of visit, and resi- dency status to determine significant …
  • Influenza messaging and interoperability: the PHLIP assistance team approach

    Content Type: Abstract

    An essential theme of the US Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan is interoperability and the ability to effectively exchange information using specific data and technical standards.1 In 2005, in an effort to accelerate the… read more
    … States that were not available to host an onsite PAT visit were given the option of receiving ‘virtual’ support. … 2010, approximately 10 PHLs receiving either an onsite visit or virtual support by the PAT are now sending …
  • A comparison of the fever–flu syndrome category with the SC ILINet surveillance system in South Carolina: 2009–2010 influenza season

    Content Type: Abstract

    The South Carolina Aberration Alerting Network (SCAAN) is a collaborative network of syndromic systems within South Carolina. Currently, SCAAN contains the following data sources: SC Hospital Emergency Department chief-… read more
    … was calculated by dividing the total number of ED visits with a fever–flu chief- complaint seen in all hospitals by the total number of ED visits seen by all hospitals. The weekly state ILI … useful to understand the population of SC residents who visit the hospital ED versus a private provider clinic for …