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Identifying Clusters of Rare and Novel Words in Emergency Department Chief Complaints
Content Type: Abstract
A goal of biosurveillance is to identify incidents that require a public health response. The challenge is creating specific definitions of such incidents so they can be detected. In syndromic surveillance, this is accomplished by classifying… read more -
Better, Stronger, Faster: Why Add Fields to Syndromic Surveillance? New Jersey, 2015
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In New Jersey, real-time emergency department (ED) data are currently received from EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter, which collects, manages and analyzes ED registration data for syndromic surveillance, and provides alerts to… read more -
BioSense 2.0 Webinar: Reports from the Field
Content Type: Webinar
In the first quarter of 2012, the CDC awarded 9 health departments BioSense Challenge Grants to accelerate local system integration with BioSense 2.0. On Friday, October 4th from 1:00-2:00 pm EDT, ISDS and the BioSense Redesign Team will host a… read more -
Using probabilistic matching to improve opioid drug overdose surveillance, New Jersey
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The opioid drug overdose crisis presents serious challenges to state-based public health surveillance programs, not the least of which is uncertainty in the detection of cases in existing data systems. New Jersey historically had slightly higher… read more -
Weather Outlook: Cloudy with a Chance of...— Classification of Storm-Related ED Visits
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Hurricane ‘Superstorm’ Sandy struck New Jersey on October 29, 2012, causing harm to the health of New Jersey residents and billions of dollars of damage to businesses, transportation, and infrastructure. Monitoring health outcomes for increased… read more -
Development of Mental Health Classification Related to Severe Weather Events
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Real-time emergency department (ED) data are currently received from 78 of 80 New Jersey acute care and satellite EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter system. EpiCenter collects, manages and analyzes ED registration data for… read more -
Game Plan: Communicable Disease Surveillance for Super Bowl XLVIII - New Jersey, 2014
Content Type: Webinar
Presentation ends at 34:14. In the summer of 2013, the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) began planning for Super Bowl XLVIII to be held on February 2, 2014, in Met Life Stadium, located in the Meadowlands of Bergen County… read more -
Identifying Current Practical Analytic Challenges - the Analytic Solutions Committee
Content Type: Webinar
Presented September 21, 2017. The purpose of this webinar is to introduce the Analytic Solution Committees (ASC) to ISDS members, explaining how the committee works and how it… read more