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  • 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 … …
  • Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In November of 2011 BioSense 2.0 went live to provide tools for public health departments to process, store, and analyze meaningful use syndromic surveillance data. In February of 2012 ESSENCE was adapted to support meaningful use syndromic… read more
    … use syndromic surveillance data. In February of 2012 ESSENCE was adapted to support meaningful use syndromic … tools to analyze the data both using BioSense 2.0 and ESSENCE. The presentation will describe the tools and …
  • 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 …
  • Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC

    Content Type: Abstract

    Florida has implemented various surveillance methods to augment existing sources of surveillance data and enhance decision making with timely evidence based assessments to guide response efforts post-hurricanes. Historically, data collected from… read more
    … of these data to inform decision makers. The ESSENCE-FL system is an automated and secure web-based ap- …
  • 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 Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements

    Content Type: Abstract

    National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more
    … BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … can be proliferated among health departments that use ESSENCE by investigating the potential use of cloud …
  • Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events

    Content Type: Abstract

    Hospital emergency departments in Cook and surrounding counties currently send data to the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export… read more
    … County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export all …
  • Translational Research for Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more
    … surveillance. This research led to the development of the ESSENCE Application by the Johns Hopkins University Applied … 28, 2008 Joe Lombardo Joe.Lombardo@jhuapl.edu http://essence.jhuapl.edu/ESSENCEhttp://essence.jhuapl.edu/ESSENCE …