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Improving the Value Proposition of Surveillance Tools: Innovative Uses for VA ESSENCE
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VA began using ESSENCE as a public health surveillance tool in 2005. The system offered alerting capability for pre-defined syndromes and querying capability for outpatient ICD-9 diagnosis codes. Herein, we highlight examples of how we have invested… read more… VA began using ESSENCE as a public health surveillance tool in 2005. The … capabilities and expanded data sources available to ESSENCE in order to augment the overall utility of this … -
Inpatient Data: A New Frontier in VA Biosurveillance and Public Health Monitoring from the Electronic Health Record
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The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 medical centers plus clinics in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the Philippines. ESSENCE analyzes ICD-9 diagnosis codes and demographic data from outpatient and… read more… The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 … In 2010, a new instance was stood up (VA Inpatient ESSENCE) which receives weekly feeds of inpatient data from … -
Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System
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Telephone triage is a relatively new data source available to biosurveillance systems.1-2Because early detection and warning is a high priority, many biosurveillance systems have begun to collect and analyze data from non-traditional sources [… read more… Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System … -
Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application
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Many methods to detect outbreaks currently exist, although most are ineffective in the face of real data, resulting in high false positivity. More complicated methods have better precision, but can be difficult to interpret and justify. Praedico™ is… read more… syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Tue, 08/29/2017 - … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. … Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using … -
Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems
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An objective of the Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project is to improve situational awareness of the health of combined VA and DoD populations. DoD and VA both use versions of the Electronic Surveillance System… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection … -
Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations
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The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more… for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current … -
Evaluation of Praedico™, A Next Generation Big Data Biosurveillance Application
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The National Strategy for Biosurveillance promotes a national effort to improve early detection and enable ongoing situational awareness of all-hazards threats. Implicit in the Strategy’s implementation plan is the need to upgrade capabilities and… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Submitted by Magou on Wed, 11/01/2017 - 20:39 … … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). … Evaluation of Praedico™, A Next Generation Big …