Automating BioSense 2.0 Locker Processing for Local Program-Specific Surveillance

Authors

  • Harold Gil County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, San Diego, CA, United States
  • Jeffrey Johnson County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, San Diego, CA, United States
  • Brit Colanter County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, San Diego, CA, United States
  • Jessica Yen County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, San Diego, CA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5048

Abstract

This project is developing a package of materials to facilitate implementation of a jurisdictional-driven enhanced process for generating program-specific surveillance reports from BioSense 2.0 locker data. This package includes query and analysis documented-code libraries for SQL, SAS and R, a chief complaint parser, and an implementation guide. BioSense User Community members provided input during the development phase of this package to ensure that the programmed functions in the code libraries address common needs across jurisdictions. Advantages of this approach to analyzing BioSense data are automation and greater analytic versatility and flexibility compared to the current BioSense 2.0 front-door user interface.

Author Biography

Harold Gil, County of San Diego, Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Services, San Diego, CA, United States

Harold Gil is an Applied Public Health Informatics Fellow at the County of San Diego Public Health Services. He obtained his MSPH at the University of Miami where he worked on projects involving mathematical and computational modeling of infectious disease, HIV/AIDS descriptive epidemiology, and web-applications development for epidemiological data storage. His primary interests lie in increasing the efficacy and efficiency of health information communication and processing for improved decision-making.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Gil, H., Johnson, J., Colanter, B., & Yen, J. (2014). Automating BioSense 2.0 Locker Processing for Local Program-Specific Surveillance. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5048

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