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Online J Public Health InformOnline J Public Health InformOJPHIOnline Journal of Public Health Informatics1947-2579University of Illinois at Chicago Library ojphi-10-e3910.5210/ojphi.v10i1.8360ISDS 2018 Conference AbstractsEnhancing Surveillance on the BioSense Platform through Improved
Onboarding Processes Mayo Travis *
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Coletta Michael 
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Crossen Sophia 
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Oliver Kirsten 
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1 InductiveHealth Informatics, Atlanta,
GA, USA; 2 Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA,
USA; 3 Kansas Department of Health and
Environment, Topeka, KS, USA;4 West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources,
Charleston, WV, USA* Travis Mayo E-mail: tmg4@cdc.gov30 5 2018 2018 10 1 e39ISDS Annual Conference Proceedings 2018. This is an Open Access
article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting
all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is properly cited.Keywords 
OnboardingQualityValidationAutomationNSSP
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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.