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The mission of the Arizona BioSense Workgroup is to work collaboratively as partners to build capacity and quality of BioSense syndromic surveillance in Arizona. Our vision is to improve population health and emergency response through the use of timely and effective syndromic surveillance. This space is a platform for our members to continue discussions and share cross-role topics and questions from providing the data to using syndromic data (clinician/IT/public health).
Laura ErhartJoli WeissTaylor Lutich, AZHayleigh McCall, Program Analyst III, Syndromic Surveillance at CSTEMatt RoachIrene, Senior Surveillance EpidemiologistAmanda Swanson, TB Special Projects Epidemiologist at AZDHSKaitlyn ChorbiAlyaa Altabbaa, Program Analyst at CSTEHeather VenkatLaura Fox, Environmental Public Health Tracking EpidemiologistChristina Mrukowicz, EpidemiologistSarah GieszlAmy LaiMichelle Kreutzberg-Martinez +189 others
Posted by Rachel Berg ·

AMC and DQDB Application Updates

BioSense Platform Application Update:

  • The Access & Management Center (AMC) and the Data Quality (DQ) Dashboard will be updated to version 2.11.
  • These servers will start going offline on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at 6:00 am et.
  • Servers will be restarted several times during the update window.
  • We plan to complete all work on Thursday, March 14, 2024, by 8:00 am et.
  • We will send you a closeout email when activities are complete.
AMC Updates:


Several improvements to the AMC are scheduled for release. These will be of interest to site administrators and other users with elevated privileges:
  • Reports tab: Add a new Download button located above the data table
  • Lab-B data: Restrict Lab-B FLU and RSV data to only authorized CDC (Operationl Access and NSSP) users
  • Manage Users tab: Fix issue preventing Colorado sites from downloading User Report
  • Sign-in page: Fix issue with PIV log-in routing to Code of Conduct
 
DQ Dashboard Updates:

The 2.11 update adds the Data Quality on Demand (DQOD) to the DQ Dashboard. The DQOD pulls large bodies of high-granularity site- and date-specific timeliness, completeness, and validity metrics, with markedly increased performance and point-and-click report customization. Here is a breakdown of the DQ Dashboard enhancements:
  • Data Quality on Demand:
    • Add the Completeness Report Generator: A report-building assistant designed to pull up to 181 unique completeness elements per user-specified, ESSENCE-inspired filters to generate a custom-formatted, reproducible Excel workbook
    • Add the Message Explorer: An exploration tool for detecting and investigating nonconforming completeness element values using sampling and pattern matching
  • Resources tab: Add Master Facility Table (MFT) and Operational Crosswalk tables

Effect on Services:

These tasks will require restarting some onboarding and production BioSense Platform servers several times. The following services will not be available during this update window:


  • AMC
  • Data Quality Dashboard
  • ESSENCE data processing
  • ESSENCE Web application
  • Posit Workbench
  • SAS Studio

 
User-Required Actions:

  • None

Comments & Events

Rachel Berg, Syndromic Surveillance Program Coordinator at ADHS Rachel Berg, Syndromic Surveillance Program Coordinator
BioSense Platform Patching and Software Update Closeout:


The Access & Management Center (AMC) and the Data Quality (DQ) Dashboard were updated to version 2.11. These updates were completed on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at 8:30 am et.

AMC Updates:


Several improvements to the AMC have been added. These will be of interest to site administrators and other users with elevated privileges:
  • Reports tab: Added a new Download button located above the data table
  • Lab-B data: Restricted access to Lab-B FLU and RSV data to only authorized CDC (Operational Access and NSSP) users
  • Manage Users tab: Fixed issue preventing Colorado sites from downloading User Report
  • Sign-in page: Fixed issue with PIV log-in routing to Code of Conduct
 
DQ Dashboard Updates:

Improvements of interest to site administrators and others granted access to the DQ Dashboard have been added:
  • Data Quality on Demand:
  • Added the Completeness Report Generator: A report-building assistant designed to pull up to 181 unique completeness elements per user-specified, ESSENCE-inspired filters to generate a custom-formatted, reproducible Excel workbook
  • Added the Message Explorer: An exploration tool for detecting and investigating nonconforming completeness element values using sampling and pattern matching
  • Resources tab: Added Master Facility Table (MFT) and Operational Crosswalk tables
 

Effect on Services:

These tasks required several restarts of some onboarding and production BioSense Platform servers. The following services were not available during this update window:


  • AMC
  • DQ Dashboard
  • ESSENCE data processing
  • ESSENCE Web application
  • Posit Workbench
  • SAS Studio

These services are now available.
 
User-Required Actions:

  • None
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