<p> HHS Northeast Region, Syndromic Surveillance Collaborative Meeting 2017 Northeast Epidemiology Pre-Conference</p><p>Date and Time: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. EDT Location: The Hotel Northampton, 36 King St., Northampton, MA 01060</p><p>Our discussion is dependent on your completion of your jurisdictional survey due: Oct 11, 2017 TIME AGENDA ITEM SPEAKERS 8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 8:40 Welcome Kristen Soto CDC Updates 8:40 – 9:00  NSSP Update Antheny Wilson  Meeting Updates (including Grantee Meeting) Jurisdictional Updates & NE Region Data Sharing Goals Rosa Ergas 9:00 – 10:15  Regional syndromic surveillance profile updates  Regional views and data sharing in ESSENCE 10:15 – 10:30 Break Use Case Discussion #1: Influenza  Submitting SyS data to ILINet (Kirsten Waller) Kirsten Waller 10:30 – 12:00  Creating a regional ILI Dashboard in ESSENCE (Rosa Rosa Ergas Ergas)  Open discussion of jurisdictional case definitions and plans for ILI surveillance and data sharing Box Lunch 12:00 – 12:30 Networking Lunch Provided Use Case Discussion #2: Opioids  Using triage notes and diagnosis codes to classify opioid- related ED visits (Stella Tsai/ Teresa Hamby) Stella Tsai  Opioid data validation and comparison (Rosa Ergas) Teresa Hamby 12:30 –2:00  Opioid Drug Monitoring Initiative partnership & reporting Rosa Ergas for decision-maker intervention David Swenson  Open discussion of jurisdictional case definitions & plans for opioid surveillance and data sharing Regional Data Sharing Challenges Veronica Fialkowski  Discordant treatment/residential jurisdictions (Veronica 2:00 –2:30 David Swenson Fialkowski)  Changing chief complaint sensitivity (David Swenson) 2:30 – 2:45 Break NE Region Workgroup  Review of the ISDS CoP NE Regional Workgroup website Teresa Hamby 2:45 – 4:00  Discussion of future planned intra or inter-jurisdictional data sharing  Workgroup planning 4:00– 4:30 Data Sharing Workshop Recap and future NE Region goals Kristen Soto</p><p>Have a good evening and NE Epi Conference!</p>