Bonus Measure: Syndromic Surveillance Reporting

The ability to create a syndromic surveillance data file in Sevocity is available only from the Urgent Care encounter type. Clinic Administrators can enable and disable the Urgent Care encounter type by going to Tools > Preferences > CLINIC User > Encounter Types

1. From the Urgent Care encounter, click the Syndromic Surveillance Data button
2. Select a message type: Registration or Discharge
3. Select the patient’s County of Residence
4. Click Export
5. Type a name for the file and click Save to save to a local machine

The encounter data is exported as an HL7 Health Level-7, a set of international standards for the transfer of data between Health IT systems output file that can be used for submission to a public health agency.

• Active engagement can be the process of moving toward sending data to a PHA or actively sending data to a PHA.

  • The process of moving toward sending data to a PHA is demonstrated by a completed registration with the PHA to submit data or by testing and validating electronic data submitted to the PHA.

  • Registration with the PHA must be completed within 60 days of the start of the performance period

• ECs in the process of moving toward sending data to a PHA or actively sending data to a PHA prior to the start of the performance period may attest YES to active engagement for this measure.