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).

📢 Making COVID Electronic Laboratory Reporting (CELR) summary data available to ESSENCE users on BioSense Platform

Hi All,

We wanted to also follow up on this new update about COVID Electronic Laboratory Reporting summary data being made available in ESSENCE.  We are seeking input about what considerations should be taken into account for data sharing access rules and users.  ADHS will coordinate with NSSP our decision for this data sharing decision on behalf of our users.
  
Examples discussed on the AZ BioSense Community of Practice call were: 

  • Determining:
    • Benefits and Challenges
    • How does this access differ from our current AZ ELR System and ESSENCE data and tools?
    • What considerations do we need to factor in?
    • What about the 6 commercial labs already available in ESSENCE?
    • Levels Access
      • Aggregate vs Line Level
    • Users
      • Who should have access and what does this process look like?
      • Do approvals go through BioSense Liaisons?
    • Use Cases
      • What are these?

If you have questions of comments about today's discussion or this topic please contact our ADHS Syndromic Surveillance Program at syndromicsurveillance@azdhs.gov.