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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 … -
Validation of Analytic Methods for Combining Evidence Sources in Biosurveillance
Content Type: Abstract
Recent years' informatics advances have increased availability of various sources of health-monitoring information to agencies responsible for disease surveillance. These sources differ in clinical relevance and reliability, and range from… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). In 2012 this module was expanded with syndromic … efforts have produced a full fusion-enabled version of ESSENCE for beta testing, further upgrades, and a software … -
Streamlined Development of Analytic Fusion Capability for Health Surveillance
Content Type: Abstract
The motivation for this project is to provide greater situational awareness to DoD epidemiologists monitoring the health of military personnel and their dependents. An increasing number of data sources of varying clinical specificity and timeliness… read more… for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Data sources included clinical encounter records … allow us to improve the analytic fusion abilities of DoD ESSENCE, as well as in civilian surveillance systems Our … -
Analytic Fusion for Essential Indicators of the Opioid Epidemic
Content Type: Abstract
Unlike other health threats of recent concern for which widespread mortality was hypothetical, the high fatality burden of opioid overdose crisis is present, steadily growing, and affecting young and old, rural and urban, military and civilian… read more… are to implement best-performing fusion methods as an ESSENCE module for the benefit of OHA staff and other user … intended to enable practical situational awareness in the ESSENCE biosurveillance system to target response programs … -
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 … -
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 …