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Syndromic Surveillance

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.

The federal meaningful use initiative is a major driver to the establishment of expanded electronic syndromic surveillance capacity across the United States. Much has been documented about the background and requirements for eligible hospitals to achieve the syndromic meaningful use objectives. However, the role and efforts by public health agencies in the syndromic onboarding process, which varies by jurisdiction, is a significant component of the success of meaningful use. 

Objective

This presentation aims to highlight technical approaches, validation activities, outcomes, and lessons learned while onboarding local hospitals through a local health information exchange (HIE) for Meaningful Use Stage 2 syndromic surveillance

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The LAC SSS has been in existence since 2004. Currently, the system collects data from over 50 hospitals daily and performs a chief complaint-based syndrome classification analysis of all ED visits. The keyword “fever” is of special interest due to its inclusion within several syndrome category definitions such as influenza, meningitis, etc. However, inclusion of such terms in syndrome definitions may be a disadvantage as such keyword searches would depend upon the consistency in which the term “fever” is reported. In 2014, several LAC syndromic surveillance hospital data connections were upgraded to include notes recording patient body temperature. To evaluate the newly added temperature information, analyses were conducted on those observations that included body temperature, chief complaint, and diagnosis information.

Objective

The Los Angeles County (LAC) Emergency Department (ED) Syndromic Surveillance System (SSS) classifies patients into syndrome categories based on stated chief complaints. In an effort to evaluate the accuracy of patient- stated chief complaints and final diagnoses, both “fever” chief complaints and diagnoses were compared with patient body temperature readings.

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Triple - S is a project co-financed by the European commission through the Executive Agency for Health and Consumers. THe project encompasses an inventory of existing and proposed syndromic surveillance systems in Europe, including country visits for an in-depth understanding of selected systems. The aim of the project is to increase the European capacity for real-time or near-real time surveillance monitoring of the health burden of expected and unexpected health related events.

Syndromic surveillance has demonstrated utility for situational awareness for non-infectious conditions, including tracking and monitoring gun-related violence and homicides. While New York State reports an overall decrease in gun-related crimes, in NYC identifying smaller scale aberrations of gunshot-related violence can prompt more efficient response by city groups. We examined the temporal and borough-level characteristics of gunshot-related emergency department (ED) visits in NYC.

Objective

To describe epidemiological characteristics of gunshot-related injuries in New York City (NYC) using syndromic surveillance data

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This guide offers standardized specifications to Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) for the electronic transfer of Syndromic Surveillance (SS) data from hospital Certified Electronic Health Records technology (CEHRT) to the BioSense 2.0 system for SS reporting. This guide will provide an overview of the type of data being collected, the suppliers of the data, the system collecting the information, and the format needed for successful submission of Syndromic Surveillance data to ADHS.

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NC DETECT receives ICD-9-CM codes for emergency department (ED) visits and uses these codes in case definitions for syndromic surveillance (e.g. infectious disease, injury, etc.). Hospitals will begin using ICD-10-CM codes on October 1, 2015. As a result, preparations have been made to accommodate ICD-10-CM codes in NC DETECT for data transmission, receipt, processing and use in the NC DETECT Web Application.

Objective

To describe lessons learned from the transition to ICD-10-CM.

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Fever is a top cause of morbidity in all age groups in Bangladesh and often classified as fever of unknown origin (FUO) in absence of any pathognomonic sign. Bangladesh with its long monsoon, frequent flooding, stagnant water, high temperature, humidity and largest density of animal and human population serves as an ideal place for zoonotic transmission of Leptospira.

Objective

To evaluate the necessity of a coordinated leptospira surveillance in Bangladesh through a systematic review.

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