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  • Onboarding - Oregon Experience

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    From the BioSense 2.0 Onboarding Workgroup meeting, November 5, 2014 Presenter Laurel Boyd Acute and Communicable Disease Prevention Public Health Division Oregon Health Authority read more
    … variables in EHRs •  Chief complaint •  Reason for visit •  Registration note •  Stated complaint –  Frequency … •  Sending identified patient info •  Sending all visit info across a health system Wrong information •  …
  • 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
    … that can be provided to address the problem: Unique visit ID, Visit Date, Chief Complaint, Facility ID, Age, Gender, …
  • Urgent Care Data...should we collect, how, and why?

    Content Type: Webinar

    More and more patients frequent Urgent Care facilites. In this webinar, we will discuss how NSSP jurisdictions collect it, how is it formatted, and what have they learned; what's the best way to capture and share this information; and why should we… read more
    … when an hospital system uses one product for multiple visit types Fields not mapped System/local resource issues … based on syndromic data UC visits may take more finesse Lack of IP contact can exacerbate nurse workload * Why …
  • Outbreak Observatory: Conducting operational research during outbreaks to improve preparedness and response

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented June 27, 2018. During this presentation, researchers discussed how Outbreak Observatory, a pilot project initiated by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, facilitated the conduct of real-time operational research during… read more
    … key preparedness/response questions remain unanswered o Lack of resources/time during the outbreak preclude … Taiwan CDC officials and local health bureau staff o Site visit to a local hospital to observe vaccine storage and …
  • Syndromic Prediction Power: Comparing Covariates and Baselines

    Content Type: Abstract

    The eleven syndrome classifications for clinical data records monitored by BioSense include rare events such as death or lymphadenitis and also common occurrences such as respiratory infections. BioSense currently uses two statistical methods for… read more
    … data for this paper consisted of daily military clinical visit count data from the Department of Defense (DoD) for … of 28, 56, and 112 days were used to make one-day-ahead visit count predictions. For each forecast, the baseline …
  • 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
    …  truncated  dataset  consist  of  date  and  time  of  visit,  patient  residence  zip  code,  and  consistent   …   Minimum  data  elements:  date  and  time  of  visit,  patient  residence  zip  code,  and  consistent …
  • Identification of a measles case using syndromic surveillance in Salt Lake County, Utah

    Content Type: Abstract

    In March-April, 2011, Salt Lake Valley Health Department (SLVHD) investigated an outbreak of measles (N=9) resulting from a single imported case from Europe. Syndromic surveillance was used to identify measles-like illness (MLI) and enhance early… read more
    … was still possible) and all ‘measles/testing’ events. Visit notes, laboratory tests and results were obtained … investigated via patient interview by phone and/or home visit. Results Ninety-seven events of interest (of 2365 …
  • 2018 NSSP CoP Member Satisfaction Assessment Results

    Content Type: Report

    The intent of the National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) is to support open and dynamic participation of any… read more
    … Libraries. Additionally, several respondents reported a lack of time to use these tools while some were not aware of … (e.g., forums, messaging). I don't know if this is due to lack of awareness, ability to do so, intimidation, or … and virtual collaboration tools. ISDS proposes that the lack of willingness of NSSP CoP members to engage in virtual …