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Bulletin: “Gender” Field Changing to “Sex” in EpiCenter UI

November 29, 2021/0 Comments/in Other /by Emily Spindler

EpiCenter’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

October 25, 2021/0 Comments/in Bulletins /by admin

Introduction 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

October 19, 2021/0 Comments/in Bulletins /by admin

Introduction 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 […]

Bulletin: Reviewing Vault Access by Users

May 20, 2021/0 Comments/in Bulletins, Other /by admin

Introduction Syndromic Surveillance collects a limited data set from participating healthcare facilities. Under HIPAA, limited datasets do not require the same high security standards for data at rest and data in motion. With the collection of data beyond Syndromic Surveillance data, which is not part of an evaluated limited data set, there is greater concern […]

Bulletin: EpiCenter Browser Support (Internet Explorer 11 End-of-Life)

April 8, 2021/0 Comments/in Bulletins /by admin

Health Monitoring continues ongoing support of EpiCenter for the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. As of November 30, 2020, Microsoft has stopped supporting Internet Explorer 11 (IE 11), as noted in the Microsoft announcement1 published on August 17, 2020. This discontinuation may affect EpiCenter’s stability in IE 11. Impact on EpiCenter With Microsoft’s ceased […]

Patient Locator Service – Building Efficiencies and Helping Providers Focus on Care

July 1, 2020/0 Comments/in Other /by Katie Hutchison

As Health Monitoring builds its Patient Locator Service, we continue to identify new ways that the service will benefit our clients. The concept, which grew out of unmet demand for one-stop patient location information, will soon be available to provide meaningful efficiencies in emergency situations. This allows providers to remain focused on patient care. Our […]

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Bulletin: “Gender” Field Changing to “Sex” in EpiCenter UI

Bulletin: Composed Classifiers

Bulletin: Data Flow from Facilities to EpiCenter

Bulletin: Reviewing Vault Access by Users

Bulletin: EpiCenter Browser Support (Internet Explorer 11 End-of-Life)

Patient Locator Service – Building Efficiencies and Helping Providers Focus on Care

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