Assessing Best Practices for Grouping and Analyzing Urgent Care Center (UCC) and Emergency Department (ED) Data Sources within Syndromic Surveillance Systems

Authors

  • Melinda C. Thomas Bureau of Epidemiology, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
  • David Atrubin Bureau of Epidemiology, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, United States.
  • Janet Hamilton Bureau of Epidemiology, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, United States.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5043

Abstract

The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) electronically receives both urgent care center (UCC) data and hospital emergency department (ED) data from health care facilities in 43 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL). This project will investigate and describe the differences between the data received from these two sources and provide best practices for grouping and analyzing these data sources.

Author Biography

Melinda C. Thomas, Bureau of Epidemiology, Florida Department of Health, Tallahassee, FL, United States.

Melinda Thomas is currently the Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow at the Florida Department of Health in the Bureau of Epidemiology. Mrs. Thomas graduated from Georgia Regents University (formerly the Medical College of Georgia) with a Master of Public Health (MPH) in Health Informatics in 2013.

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Published

2014-03-03

How to Cite

Thomas, M. C., Atrubin, D., & Hamilton, J. (2014). Assessing Best Practices for Grouping and Analyzing Urgent Care Center (UCC) and Emergency Department (ED) Data Sources within Syndromic Surveillance Systems. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5043

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Oral Presentations