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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 […]

Bulletin: How EpiCenter Manages User Passwords

August 30, 2018/0 Comments/in Bulletins/by admin

EpiCenter offers a set of built-in password complexity rules intended to enhance password security. EpiCenter customers may enable any subset of these rules to restrict user passwords. When no password rules are enabled, EpiCenter will allow users to choose passwords without restriction. Passwords may be of any length and contain any combination of character types […]

Pittsburgh Technology Council Honors Health Monitoring Again; Company is Finalist for Innovator of the Year in the Health IT Category

August 11, 2018/0 Comments/in News/by admin

For the third time in four years, Health Monitoring has been selected by Pittsburgh Technology Council as a finalist in the Tech 50 Awards. This year, Health Monitoring was again honored in the category of Health IT Innovator of the Year. Since 1996, the PTC’s Tech 50 Awards have recognized the most successful and innovative technology […]

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

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

Bulletin: How EpiCenter Manages User Passwords

Pittsburgh Technology Council Honors Health Monitoring Again; Company is Finalist for Innovator of the Year in the Health IT Category

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