Identification

Name

Automated Hospital Emergency Department Data Surveillance
Short name

AHEDD
Status

Active
Category

System
People
(1) Christine Adamski, Administrator, cadamski@dhhs.state.nh.us
(2) David Swenson, AHEDD project manager, dswenson@dhhs.state.nh.us
Organizations
(1) Department of Health and Human Services (New Hampshire) (DHHS)
Update frequency

Daily
Created

2014-07-09 14:30:31+00:00
Modified

2016-07-06 20:28:52.106919+00:00

Basic Information

Overview

AHEDD is a system in New Hampshire that provides a unique way of monitoring symptoms among people who visit hospital emergency departments. This system was developed by both the Bioterrorism Surveillance Program and Health Statistics and Data Management Section with Disease Surveillance as a real-time ED data surveillance system, which includes automated syndromic surveillance.
Goals
(1) Early detection
Year start

2005
URL http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/dphs/cdcs/surveillance/bioterrorism.htm
Related system
(1) New Hampshire Health Web Reporting and Query System (NH HealthWRQS)

Disease and Geography

Locations
(1) New Hampshire
Geography

No
Disease properties
(1) Notifiable diseases (USA)

Datastreams

Data sources
(1) ED/Hospital Records