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Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System
Content Type: Abstract
In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more… from 55 hospitals. The ISDH analyzes these data using ESSENCE and initiates field investigations when human review … is the first local health department in Indiana using ESSENCE. Objective This paper describes how local and … -
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing
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When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more… information systems (separate installations of the ESSENCE system, developed at JHUAPL). The situation provided … information systems (separate installations of the ESSENCE system, developed at JHUAPL). The situation provided … -
Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave
Content Type: Abstract
In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … written plan indicated, a MCPHD epidemiologist checked ESSENCE every 3 hours and sent updated numbers to the … -
Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities
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Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more… The MCHD monitors the ED data using two methods: 1) the ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … with chief complaints that would not trigger an alert in ESSENCE, the MCHD also uses user-defined queries in ESSENCE … -
Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance
Content Type: Presentation Slides
These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more… to support the two user groups we have: the R Group and ESSENCE User Group. This first version of the graphic was … R Group for Biosurveillance calls ESSENCE Trainings and Q & A’s What is a success story and how do I write one? … -
Utilizing Emergency Department Data to Evaluate Primary Care Clinic Hours
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In addition to utilizing syndromic surveillance data to respond to public health threats and prepare for major incidents, local health departments can utilize the data to examine patient volumes in the emergency departments (EDs) of… read more… hours’ impact on ED use. METHODS All 2007 ED visits from ESSENCE for the urban public hospital were analyzed for …