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  • Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition

    Content Type: Abstract

    More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … Notification of Community-based Epidemics (Enterprise ESSENCE), which is currently used by federal, state and … the experience gained in the development of Enterprise ESSENCE, JHU/APL has developed two freely available …
  • The Evolution of ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more
    … In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public … and planned enhancements of the system. The_Evolution_Of_Essence.pdf Submitted by elamb on Thu, 05/02/2019 - 08:52 … …
  • Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration

    Content Type: Abstract

    The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more
    … The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. … alerts is impractical for the group of monitors using ESSENCE. Signals of interest may be masked by the nationwide … burden. Customized querying features have been added to ESSENCE, but standardization and IP training are required to …
  • Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources

    Content Type: Abstract

    Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more
    … In 2007, a statewide syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE) was implemented and hospitals were recruited to participate. Experience with ESSENCE in the context of the ED data analysis, …
  • Applications of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition for Outbreak Detection in a Resource-Limited Setting

    Content Type: Abstract

    Recent events have focused on the role of emerging and re-emerging diseases not only as a significant public health threat but also as a serious threat to the economy and security of nations. The lead time to detect and contain a novel emerging… read more
    …   Objective To determine system usefulness of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition in detecting increases in the number … by elamb on Thu, 05/02/2019 - 08:52 … Applications of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition for outbreak detection in a …
  • Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE): Overview, Components, and Public Health Applications

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Background: The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public health… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care … of severe weather, and other events of concern. The ESSENCE concept began in an internally funded project at the …
  • Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for … The hemorrhagic illness (HI) syndrome category in ESSENCE is comprised of 25 different ICD9 codes, including …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

    Content Type: Abstract

    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a … outbreaks were detected by epidemiologists inspecting ESSENCE time series and derived event lists. The …