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Description

On March 7th and 8th of 2007 authorities from federal, state, county, and municipal jurisdictions/agencies having mass migration response responsibilities (as per the Department of Homeland Security Operation Vigilant Sentry, as well as State and Local plans) initiated the last of a series of mass migration exercise events. The mission of the exercise was to “unify” a federal, state, and local response to effectively mitigate a catastrophic mass migration incident, similar to the Mariel Boatlift (125,000+ migrants) in 1980. The exercise included volunteers who visited a few local emergency departments with specific scripts describing an acute medical condition.

 

Objective

Describe the use of the ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics) system to detect unusual patterns of emergency department use during a full scale mass migration exercise in South Florida.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

This abstract describes Missouriís experience with syndromic surveillance. Missouri has expanded from acquiring pre-tabulated data from volunteers to receiving patient-level data via electronic feeds from 85 hospitals across the state processed through multiple analysis, visualization, and reporting tools. Missouri and its partners use these data for early event detection and situational awareness at the state and local levels.

Submitted by elamb on
Description

Syndromic surveillance uses near-real-time emergency department and other health care data for enhancing public health situational awareness and informing public health activities. In recent years, continued progress has been made in developing and strengthening syndromic surveillance activities. At the national level, syndromic surveillance activities are facilitated by the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), a collaboration among state and local health departments, the CDC, other federal organizations, and other organizations that enabled collection of syndromic surveillance data in a timely manner, application of advanced data monitoring and analysis techniques, and sharing of best practices. This panel will highlight the importance of success stories. Examples of successes from state and local health departments will be presented and the audience will be encouraged to provide feedback.

Objective:

This panel will: 

  • Discuss the importance of identifying and developing success stories
  • Highlight successes from state and local health departments to show how syndromic surveillance activities enhance situational awareness and address public health concerns
  • Encourage discussion on how to further efforts for developing and disseminating success stories.
Submitted by elamb on