What type of feedback and information will hospitals receive?
Hospitals will not receive any formal feedback from DHSS concerning the data they have submitted. Hospitals will be granted access to ESSENCE where the will be able monitor their hospital’s data inputs and flagged syndromic levels. Essence also has a graphing feature that will allow users to generate graphed results from the selected data at the request of the user. Local public health agencies will also have access to these data via ESSENCE access.