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  • 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( …
  • Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Dr. Cynthia Lucero continues our Meaningful Use webinar series with an introduction to… read more
    … age, sex, eligibility, homelessness, death indicator) Visit information (e.g. ICD-9 diagnosis codes, E&M codes, … & DoD 37 Data Challenges Locating/mapping data accurately Lack of data standardization Data validation process …
  • Content Type: Form

    The survey, developed by the ISDS Meaningful Use Business Process Mapping Subgroup, was designed to facilitate conversations between health care facilities and public health departments before and during Meaningful Use implementation and… read more
    … access hospital (CAH)? Yes No Emergency department (ED) visit count (avg per day, over the last month)? Urgent care (UC) visit count (avg per day, over the last month)? Number of … any pertinent workflow details below. 39. Is a new visit ID assigned when the patient is admitted as an …
  • Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2024• October 2024- Recordingread more
    … - Recording March 2022 (Topic: Syndrome Development - Back to the Basics) - Recording   February 2022 No call this … - Recording March 2022 (Topic: Syndrome Development - Back to the Basics) - Recording   February 2022 No call this … - Recording March 2022 (Topic: Syndrome Development - Back to the Basics) - Recording   February 2022 No call this …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    We explored the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza surveillance, from both a local and a regional perspective.
    … There was a strong correlation between weekly ED fever visit counts and positive flu isolates, both for the region … lation between positive flu isolates and weekly ED fever visit counts was highest among 18-44 year-olds (r=.87) and … teeism trends correlated strongly with weekly fever visit counts among 5-17 year-olds (r = 0.83). The …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    Twelve years into the 21st century, after publication of hundreds of articles and establishment of numerous biosurveillance systems worldwide, there is no agreement among the disease surveillance community on most effective technical methods for… read more
    … of method development cannot access surveillance data. Lack of data access is a formidable obstacle to developers … of method development cannot access surveillance data. Lack of data access is a formidable obstacle to developers …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    … and denotations of a frostbite history when the current visit is not frostbite related. For example, a record may … frostbite^,or,^dressing change^,), 8 to visit the ED daily for four days to have his wounds … chief complaint and discharge diagnosis fields in ED visit and inpatient hospital admission data but was also …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    Most research in syndromic surveillance has emphasized early detection, but clinical diagnosis of the index case will tend to occur before detection by syndromic surveillance for certain types of outbreaks [1]. Syndromic surveillance may, however,… read more
    … at time t, we define a window of w days duration to ‘look back’ for excess cases. For each day d in the window, we … cases. We then sum the residuals over days in the ‘look back’ window to obtain an estimate of the disease burden … we conducted a simulation study using ambulatory visit records for respiratory conditions. We used a model …