Latest News From Health Monitoring
Keeping you up to date on recent initiatives, software enhancements, and the national conversation about public health
Bulletin: Race/Ethnicity: Issue with Updating Patient Details
/0 Comments/in Bulletins/by adminIntroduction During the PA Emergency Department Data Collection work that is being done as part of the “PA Data Enhancements Project” (P22.007), we encountered a specific behavior within our product regarding how the Race/Ethnicity fields were populated for some patients. After investigating how this data was handled, we realized that if patients having a prior […]
Bulletin: Geographic Access Restrictions to Epicenter
/0 Comments/in Other/by Emily SpindlerIntroduction As part of our ongoing efforts to improve product security and responsiveness, HMS will be implementing geographical access restrictions for our Epicenter product. These restrictions will only allow access to connections originating from North America (eg. the United States, Mexico, and Canada). All connections originating from other countries will be denied. Impact of change […]
Bulletin: “Gender” Field Changing to “Sex” in EpiCenter UI
/0 Comments/in Other/by Emily SpindlerEpiCenter’s “Gender” field label will be changing to “Sex”. All functionality and dropdown menu choices will remain the same. Health Monitoring has chosen to re-examine our use of terminology for this field. While “sex” and “gender” have historically been used as synonyms in the healthcare field, contemporary usage has shifted to draw a distinction between […]
Bulletin: Composed Classifiers
/0 Comments/in Bulletins/by adminIntroduction All Emergency Department Registration data coming into EpiCenter is automatically classified by the system. Classifications are categories or tags associated with each healthcare interaction that are used by EpiCenter’s Syndromic Surveillance and other analyses. Classifiers are groupings of conceptually similar classifications. Classifications for Acute Care Interactions are based on an individual data field. Most […]
Bulletin: Data Flow from Facilities to EpiCenter
/0 Comments/in Bulletins/by adminIntroduction EpiCenter uses healthcare data as the input for Syndromic Surveillance, Visit Monitoring, Treatment Monitoring, and custom reports.. This bulletin provides specifics around how data flows from facilities to EpiCenter. Figure 1 – Data Flow from Hospital to EpiCenter Clarification on Data Flow Hospital Systems Facilities send electronic healthcare data to EpiCenter according to Health […]
About Health Monitoring
Our mission: Provide services that focus healthcare resources on existing and emergent threats to community health.
Our customers: State and local public health departments and health systems. We currently serve Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wyoming, and several counties in California, covering a total of more than 40 million people.
What we do: Monitor real-time health-related data for community health indicators. We collect data from nearly 600 hospitals and 3,600 ambulatory systems.
Support
Support email:
support@health-monitoring.com
Emergency support: 1 (844) 231-5776
Additional guidance:
EpiCenter User Manual
Address
700 River Ave., Suite 130
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Contact
Corporate office: 1 (412) 231-2020
General calls: 1 (844) 231-5774
Emergency support: 1 (844) 231-5776