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Data Sharing Across Jurisdictions Using ESSENCE Federated Queries
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There are currently over 25 installations of ESSENCE across the US. Among these, there are 3 instances of multi-jurisdictional implementations. These include a centralized regional system in the National Capital Region for MD, DC, and VA, a Missouri… read more -
Jurisdictional Usage of the New ESSENCE Word Alert Feature
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Syndromic surveillance systems have historically focused on aggregating data into syndromes for analysis and visualization. These syndromes provide users a way to quickly filter large amounts of data into a manageable number of streams to analyze.… read more -
Knowledge Management Tools for the ISDS Community of Practice
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Knowledge Management is defined as “the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge.” ISDS members have varying degrees of experience with public health surveillance and syndromic surveillance specifically, and will all… read more -
Demographic Health Analysis by Incorporation of Census Data with Patient Records
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Electronic disease surveillance canonically represents analysis performed on health records with respect to their syndromes, complaints, lab data, etc. This data can tell the story of a patient’s current status but does not provide a holistic look… read more -
Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization
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The use of R is increasing in the public health disease surveillance community. The ISDS pre-conference workshops and newly formed R Group for Surveillance have been well attended and continue to grow in popularity. The use of R in the National… read more -
Preparing Disease Surveillance Systems for ICD10
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The compliance date for the ICD9-ICD10 transition is October 1, 2015. The hospitals have started the ICD9-ICD10 transition. However, not all data providers will transition the data at the same time. In order to facilitate some coherence to the data… read more -
Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data
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Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out meaningful use syndromic surveillance data using the Health Level 7 (HL7) v2.5 standard. This presentation will detail the technical… read more -
Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System
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Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more