Evaluation of Electronic Ambulatory Care Data for Use in the Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet)

During summer 2012, Washington State Department of Health (WA DOH) surveyed ILINet providers and found that more than half either utilize their electronic medical record system (EMRS) to gather and report weekly ILINet data, or intend to implement queries to do so in the future. There are a variety of EMRS being used state-wide, and providers that currently utilize these systems to report ILINet data apply a wide range of methods to query their data.

March 19, 2018

Recommendations for Syndromic Surveillance Using Inpatient and Ambulatory EHR Data

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 electronic syndromic surveillance data to public health. Together, these data can strengthen public health surveillance capabilities and population health outcomes (Figure 1). To facilitate the adoption and effective use of these data to advance population health, public health priorities and system capabilities must shape standards for data exchange.

July 05, 2018

Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Using Novel Clinical Data Sources

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. Existing systems effectively perform a range of activities from influenza-like illness surveillance to heart disease risk factor surveillance. With further development, ambulatory and inpatient data could become an integral part of syndromic surveillance practice.

Objective

July 17, 2018

A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters

Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.

July 30, 2018

Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection

To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

July 30, 2018

Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States

The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated.

 

Objective

In this interim report we describe the signals detected by a real-time ambulatory care-based syndromic surveillance system and discuss their relationship to true outbreaks of illness.

July 30, 2018

A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness

We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating in the National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program [1].

July 30, 2018

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