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Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshops: Process and Early Outcomes
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Sharing public health (PH) data and practices among PH authorities enhances epidemiological capacities and expands situational awareness at multiple levels. Ease of data sharing through the BioSense application, now part of the National Syndromic… read more -
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Using Novel Clinical Data Sources
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Discusses the current state of syndromic surveillance using inpatient and ambulatory clinical data in the United States and the potential utility of the data. The Meaningful Use Stages 2 and 3 regulations incentivize the use of these data sources.… read more -
Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data
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MUse will make EHR data increasingly available for public health surveillance. For Stage 2, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulations will require hospitals and offer an option for eligible professionals to provide… read more -
EHR Conformance Testing for Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance System Interoperability
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Lack of speed, reliability, and uniformity of data collection limit the ability of syndromic surveillance (SyS) systems to provide public health authorities (PHAs) with timely information on community health threats and trends. Electronic… read more -
Check! Explore Barriers and Solutions to Data Sharing on BioSense 2.0
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Inter-jurisdictional data sharing can enhance disease surveillance capabilities for local, state, regional and national public health situational awareness and response. BioSense 2.0, a cloud-based computing platform for syndromic surveillance,… read more -
Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use
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In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more -
On to Meaningful Use Stage 2: Refining Public Health Readiness Guidelines
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In the U.S., federal programs are accelerating the meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) technology and encouraging greater standardization in how governmental public health agencies (PHAs) establish surveillance data partnerships with… read more -
Redefining Syndromic Surveillance
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The field of syndromic surveillance has received increased attention over the past decade as an expansion of traditional disease detection methods. There is, however, little or no consensus, regarding a standard definition encompassing the full… read more