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ISDS 2018 Conference Abstracts

Enhancing Surveillance on the BioSense Platform 
through Improved Onboarding Processes
Travis Mayo*1, Michael Coletta2, Sophia Crossen3 and Kirsten Oliver4
1InductiveHealth Informatics, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; 3Kansas Department 
of Health and Environment, Topeka, KS, USA; 4West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Charleston, WV, USA

Objective
This session will present the impacts of enhancements made to 

National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Platform 
Onboarding in 2017 from the perspective of CDC and public health 
jurisdictions.

Introduction
In 2017, the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) 

continued to expand as a national scope data source with over 6,500 
facilities registered on the BioSense Platform, including 4,000 active, 
1,800 onboarding, and 700 planned or inactive facilities. 2,086 of 
the active facilities are Emergency Departments across 49 sites in 
41 states. The growth of data available in NSSP has been driven by 
continued enhancements to tools and processes used by the NSSP 
Onboarding Team. These enhancements help to rapidly integrate new 
healthcare facilities and onboard new public health sites in support of 
American Hospital Association (AHA) Emergency Department (ED) 
representativeness goals. Furthermore, with these improvements to 
the onboarding process, including the Master Facility Table update 
process and automated data validation reporting, NSSP has broadened 
stakeholder participation in the onboarding process.

Keywords
Onboarding; Quality; Validation; Automation; NSSP

*Travis Mayo
E-mail: tmg4@cdc.gov

Online Journal of Public Health Informatics * ISSN 1947-2579 * http://ojphi.org * 10(1):e39, 2018