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Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data
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Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out meaningful use syndromic surveillance data using the Health Level 7 (HL7) v2.5 standard. This presentation will detail the technical… read more -
Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data
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In November of 2011 BioSense 2.0 went live to provide tools for public health departments to process, store, and analyze meaningful use syndromic surveillance data. In February of 2012 ESSENCE was adapted to support meaningful use syndromic… 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 -
Mental Illness and Co-morbid Conditions: BioSense 2008 - 2011
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Understanding the relationship between mental illness and medical comorbidity is an important aspect of public health surveillance. In 2004, an estimated one fourth of the US adults reported having a mental illness in the previous year (1). Studies… read more -
International System for Total Early Disease Detection (InSTEDD) Platform
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This paper describes a hybrid (event-based and indicator-based) surveillance platform designed to streamline the collaboration between domain experts and machine learning algorithms for detection, prediction and response to health-related events (… read more -
A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements
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National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more -
BioSense program redesign
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The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more -
Quantifying the relationship between influenza-related emergency department visits and hospital admissions in BioSense
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Real-time emergency department (ED) data from the BioSense surveillance program for ILI visits and ILI admissions provide valuable insight into disease severity that bridges gaps in traditional influenza surveillance systems that monitor ILI in… read more