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Syndromic Surveillance

Standardized electronic pre-diagnostic information is routinely collected in Alberta, Canada. ARTSSN is an automated real-time surveillance data repository able to rapidly refresh data that include school absenteeism information, calls about health concerns from Health Link Alberta; a provincial telephone service for health advice and information, and emergency department visits categorized by standardized chief complaint. Until recently, real-time ARTSSN data for public health surveillance and decision making has been underutilized.

Objective

We developed early warning algorithms using data from ARTSSN and used them to detect signatures of potential pandemics and provide regular weekly forecasts on influenza trends in Alberta during 2012-2014.

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On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both Committees expressed concern that much current research in disease surveillance has little application for public health practitioners. With an increasing emphasis on health information technology and exchange, public health practitioners need relevant, understandable analytic tools to manage information and make it useful.

The March 2010 webinar of the ISDS Public Health Practice Committee gave an overview regarding how Florida is incorporating visualizations of their reportable disease data into their syndromic surveillance system. The presentation was followed by a general discussion regarding the need for and benefits of comparing - on a regular, systematic basis - reportable disease data and syndromic surveillance data.

Presenters

Aaron Kite-Powell, MS, Bureau of Epidemiology, Florida Department of Health

Date

This letter was intended to establish a dialogue between surveillance professionals and the BioSense Governance Group. The particiapnts were interested in establishing data sharing relationships across jurisdictions utilizing BioSense. Within this letter are a number of recommendations for increasing the feasibility of this data sharing process in BioSense. Recommendations include: 1) increased documentation and additional tools; and 2) functionalities in the BioSense application.

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This checklist will prepare Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) to fulfill Syndromic Surveillance (SS) interoperability with the Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) and begin the process of meeting Stage 2 Requirements for Meaningful Use (MU).

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This presentation walks the Arizona health departments through the process of onboarding and references available documentation to assist in the process.

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Date

Monday, May 17, 2010

NTI's Global Health and Security Initiative joined ISDS to highlight the work of the Connecting Health Organizations for Regional Disease Surveillance (CHORDS) Project and what it is doing to address the challenges and opportunities of meeting IHR surveillance and response competencies around the world.

Presenters

Louise Greshman

Marlo Libel

Marjorie Pollack

Beverly Trayner

Host

ISDS Global Outreach Committee

Join the ISDS Public Health Practice Committee for a special meeting with Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and founding president of ISDS. Following a brief discussion with Dr. Mostashari about Meaningful Use, the committee will then host Ms. Mary Hamilton, a lead developer of the CDC's PHIN Syndromic Surveillance Messaging Guide which translates recommendations made by ISDS for Meaningful Use. Ms. Hamilton will provide a practical overview of the guide and discuss how to use this resource in practice.

Presenters

ISDS, in cooperation with the Community for Population and Public Health Measures (COPHM), is pleased to announce an upcoming webinar to be held on June 13th. The purpose of this webinar is to inform ISDS members, EHR technology developers, and public health informaticists about the Syndromic Surveillance Reference Implementation. This tool has been designed to enable communications between two organizations or between an organization and the BioSense 2.0 system.

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