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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 […]

The Genesis of PLS

June 25, 2020/0 Comments/in Other/by Katie Hutchison

Health Monitoring has a strong presence in the state of New Jersey—providing syndromic surveillance via the EpiCenter system. We’ve also worked on a number of event-specific projects in the state, including syndromic surveillance for the Super Bowl and during/after the devastating impacts of Hurricane Sandy Those experiences led the Northern New Jersey Urban Area Security […]

Ambivalence in the Time of Measles

March 4, 2019/0 Comments/in News/by Kevin Hutchison

There’s a Spanish novel that has the most intriguing title, Love in the Time of Cholera. What a linguistic contrast: love and cholera. Our current reality, involving measles outbreaks in Washington and Vancouver, might be described as “ambivalence in the time of measles.” Anyone who has interest in such topics, typically parents of young children, […]

Bulletin: Date/Time Granularity in Maps, Reports, Quick Charts, and Pivot Charts

September 12, 2018/0 Comments/in Bulletins/by admin

This bulletin discusses how time increments are handled in EpiCenter’s Maps tab (e.g., maps and Quick Charts) and in the Reports tab (e.g., in custom report maps and related Pivot Charts). Users typically select an increment of time (hour, day, week, or month) as the basis for their data analysis. To work with data from […]

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.

Latest News From Health Monitoring

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

The Genesis of PLS

Ambivalence in the Time of Measles

Bulletin: Date/Time Granularity in Maps, Reports, Quick Charts, and Pivot Charts

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