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Bulletin: Change in Definition of Chief Complaint Opioid-Related Evidence Classifier

June 18, 2018/0 Comments/in Bulletins, Health-Related Data Analysis /by admin

Effective date: July 1, 2018 Health Monitoring’s evidence classifiers incorporate data from emergency department chief complaints, diagnosis codes, and clinical notes. Each classifier contains the classifications related to the data type. Each classification is defined by a particular set of keywords in conjunction with an absence of specified negative indicators. Definition Change At the request […]

Mendocino County Adopts EpiCenter for Community Health Surveillance

June 15, 2018/0 Comments/in News /by admin

Pittsburgh, PA [June 15, 2018] — Health Monitoring and Mendocino County, California, recently finalized a two-year service agreement that will connect the county’s three hospitals to the EpiCenter™ syndromic surveillance system. These hospitals are Mendocino Coast District Hospital, Adventist Health Howard Memorial Hospital, and Adventist Health Ukiah Valley, which together handled more than 50,000 patient […]

Health Monitoring Systems Again Honored by Pittsburgh Technology Council as Tech 50 Awards Finalist

August 17, 2017/0 Comments/in News /by admin

Health Monitoring Systems, the country’s largest provider of population health surveillance data, has again been chosen as an “Innovator of the Year” finalist in the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s annual Tech 50 Awards. The awards recognize technology centers of excellence, including companies at all stages of growth. Health Monitoring has been selected as a Tech50 finalist […]

Health Monitoring Systems Named Pittsburgh Tech 50 Awards Finalist by Pittsburgh Technology Council

August 11, 2015/0 Comments/in News /by admin

[Pittsburgh, PA, August 11, 2015] – Pittsburgh’s Health Monitoring Systems, the country’s largest provider of population health surveillance data, has been chosen as an “Innovator of the Year” finalist in the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s Tech 50 Awards. For nearly 20 years, the Pittsburgh Technology Council’s annual Tech 50 Awards have recognized southwestern Pennsylvania’s most successful, innovative, and thought-leading technology companies, […]

Syndromic Surveillance: Insights into Healthcare Policy

June 8, 2015/in Other /by admin

Health Monitoring Systems is discovering that syndromic surveillance can also provide a rich source of information for public policy. Recently an American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) study found that ER physicians believe they are busier now than they were before implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. The study was covered in USA […]

Perspective: Foreign Travel Classification

February 17, 2015/in Other, Syndromic Surveillance /by admin

In the event of an outbreak, public health routinely strives to accurately identify all potential cases of disease. This process includes differentiating between the “worried well,” who may reference an infectious disease by name simply because it is receiving widespread media coverage, and patients who cite genuine causes for concern, like contact with an infected […]

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

Mendocino County Adopts EpiCenter for Community Health Surveillance

Health Monitoring Systems Again Honored by Pittsburgh Technology Council as Tech 50 Awards Finalist

Health Monitoring Systems Named Pittsburgh Tech 50 Awards Finalist by Pittsburgh Technology Council

Syndromic Surveillance: Insights into Healthcare Policy

Perspective: Foreign Travel Classification

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