ACES. 1.1) This Agreement relates to the sharing, by electronic means, of selected data elements from hospital admissions records (listed in Schedule ‘A’ hereto) for use in an automated, real-time public health syndromic surveillance system called ACES. 1.2) ACES uses automated data translation engines to analyse selected elements of hospital admissions data in order to create, in aggregate form, derivative summary analyses, epidemic curves and maps of syndromes (referred to collectively hereinafter as the “Output” of ACES) that reflect the public’s health status. 1.3) ACES updates the Output it creates in accordance with the speed of data input, enabling real-time, or near real- time, visualization of the public’s health status based on hospital admissions data. ACES operates with statistical alarms that may alert Medical Officers of Health and public health officials to potential disease outbreaks, emerging public health trends, public health threats and significant public health events.
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Sources: Health Information Network Provider Agreement, Health Information Network Provider Agreement