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  • ESSENCE II and the Framework for Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Journal Article

    In response to the threat of biologic terrorism and the resurgence of virulent forms of infectious diseases, technologic advances are being applied to disease surveillance. Syndromic surveillance systems have emerged to capture and analyze health-… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a series of prototype systems developed by Johns …  This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of ESSENCE II according to a CDC framework for evaluating …
  • Effective Use of Laboratory Data for Monitoring Population Health

    Content Type: Abstract

    Effective public health response to emerging infectious diseases, natural disasters, and bioterrorism requires access to real-time, accurate information on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance… read more
    … on disease patterns and healthcare utilization. The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … syndromes, and whether adding laboratory test data to ESSENCE would improve early detection of disease outbreaks. …
  • Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    An objective of the Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project is to improve situational awareness of the health of combined VA and DoD populations. DoD and VA both use versions of the Electronic Surveillance System… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection …
  • Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current …
  • Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data streams related to case severity have been added to the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the Department of Defense (DoD), as an additional… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the …
  • Evaluation of Praedico™, A Next Generation Big Data Biosurveillance Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    The National Strategy for Biosurveillance promotes a national effort to improve early detection and enable ongoing situational awareness of all-hazards threats. Implicit in the Strategy’s implementation plan is the need to upgrade capabilities and… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE).   Submitted by Magou on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 20:39 … … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE).   … Evaluation of Praedico™, A Next Generation Big …
  • Utility of Data Fusion for Public Health Monitors: Lessons Learned from a Beta Test

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) supports the development of new analytical tools to improve alerting in the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring application used by the …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … in- creases in respiratory illness. BACKGROUND The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … tivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp>. Microbiology laboratory tests assigned …