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  • Fact Sheet: Declared States of Emergency - Opioid Crisis

    Content Type: References

    High rates of morbidity and mortality among Americans related to opioid use constitute a public health epidemic, leading multiple jurisdictions to declare formal states of emergency or public health emergency. Declaring a state of emergency grants… read more
  • Survey: Medical Marijuana Programs

    Content Type: References

    This resource, developed by the Network for Public Health Law and released on July 17, 2017, provides a brief overview of jurisdictions with statutory and regulatory provisions legalizing medical marijuana use. The survey compiles key… read more
  • Preparing for the Impact of the ICD-9/10 Transition on Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The US Department of Health and Human Services has mandated that after October 1, 2015, all HIPAA covered entities must transition from using International Classification of Diseases version 9 (ICD- 9) codes to using version 10 (ICD-10) codes (www.… read more
    … 9 (ICD- 9) codes to using version 10 (ICD-10) codes ( www.cms.gov ). This will impact public health surveillance … 9 (ICD- 9) codes to using version 10 (ICD-10) codes (www.cms.gov). This will impact public health surveillance …
  • Training Session: Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    … ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt … Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) Ginger Cox, RHIT, CCS,  ICD-9/10 Coding and Conversion Analyst, … Training Session Mapping Tool between code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS Presenters: Peter Hicks, MA, MPH, …
  • Recommendations for Surveillance of EMS Data for Opioid Overdoses

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented March 21, 2019. FirstWatch Recommendations for Surveillance of EMS Data for Opioid Overdoses: https://www.firstwatch.net/finding-opioid-data/ Following up on the poster presentation at ISDS 2019, Silvia R. Verdugo, MD, MPH, Mike… read more
    … Surveillance of EMS Data for Opioid Overdoses:  https://www.firstwatch.net/finding-opioid-data/ Following up on the … Mining 5. Examples 6. Future Steps Background https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html … – RR < 12 b. Altered Level of Consciousness - Glasgow Coma Scale < 13 eMedication.02 and/or .03 7242 eVitals.14: < …
  • Expanding a Gazetteer-based Approach for Geo-Parsing Text from Media Reports on Global Disease Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated real-time system that monitors, organizes, integrates, filters, and maps online news about emerging diseases. The system performs geographic parsing (“geo-parsing”) of disease… read more
    … HealthMap ( www.healthmap.org ) is a freely accessible, automated … knowledge encoded in a gazetteer. BACKGROUND HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated … HealthMap (www.healthmap.org) is a freely accessible, automated …
  • 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
    … Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP)  is to support open and dynamic participation of any … the barriers and challenges to participating in the NSSP CoP activities and utilizing its related tools.   The … platform SurveyMonkey®, and a total of 197 NSSP CoP members, limited to state, local, and federal NSSP CoP …
  • Survey: Limited Access to Medical Marijuana Laws

    Content Type: References

    Eighteen states have adopted Limited Access Marijuana Product Laws permitting only low (or zero) Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and high Cannabidiol (CBD) products to treat several, often specified conditions, usually uncontrolled epilepsy disorders.… read more