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Bulletin: Race/Ethnicity: Issue with Updating Patient Details
Introduction 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
Introduction 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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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 […]