AZ BioSense Community of Practice

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).

Hospital Name Changes in ESSENCE

Hi, team

FYI, the following hospital names have been updated in MFT and soon to be propagated into ESSENCE. The changes were made to ensure consistent naming convention for the hospitals under the same parent organization (Banner Health) and to remove some unwanted characters in their old names (Yavapai Regional Medical Center) that had caused some issues in reporting.


These changes should not cause any problems in terms of accessing the hospital data in ESSENCE based on some preliminary testing we have done last week but if you do experience any reporting issues that you believe are caused by the changes made this morning, please let us know and we will work with you to get things back to normal.  Thank you!

Yong Wang
HL7 Data Analyst​, ​Electronic Disease Surveillance Program
Business Intelligence Office
Arizona Department of Health Services 
150 North 18th Avenue Suite 550, Phoenix, AZ 85007
Email       Yong.Wang@azdhs.gov