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  • Increasing Local Access to Syndromic Surveillance Data

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    In the spring of 2005, the ISDH began using Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics  (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics  (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) … LHD in the state with access to its 14 hospitals through ESSENCE. However, because hospitals and local health … Marion County) did not have access to their data through ESSENCE, any syndromic alert follow-up conducted by the ISDH …
  • Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more
    … from 55 hospitals. The ISDH analyzes these data using ESSENCE and initiates field investigations when human review … is the first local health department in Indiana using ESSENCE.   Objective This paper describes how local and …
  • Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing

    Content Type: Abstract

    When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more
    … information systems (separate installations of the ESSENCE system, developed at JHUAPL). The situation provided … information systems (separate installations of the ESSENCE system, developed at JHUAPL). The situation provided …
  • Expanding the Functionality of Syndromic Surveillance Systems: Data Mining and Query Development

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Indiana Public Health Emergency Surveillance System (PHESS) currently receives approximately 5,000 near real-time chief complaint messages from 55 hospital emergency departments daily.  The ISDH partners with the Regenstrief Institute to… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) tool is utilized to analyze these chief complaint … and could only be saved using the “bookmark” feature in ESSENCE. An automated and less labor intensive method was …
  • Exercise Demonstrates Effective Syndromic Surveillance Response Process

    Content Type: Abstract

    Currently, Indiana monitors emergency department patient chief complaint data from 73 geographically dispersed hospitals. These data are analyzed using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) application. While researchers continue to improve … a highly functional analytic data user interface such as ESSENCE, and 2) an intimate familiarity with local daily ED …
  • Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In order to assess the use of rabies post-exposure prophylaxis in Indiana, the Communicable Disease Reporting Rule, adopted October 11, 2000, requires the reporting of rabies PEP administration. Indiana is a “home rule” state; that is to say, local… read more
    … METHODS Initially, the veterinary epidemiologist used the ESSENCE query feature to search for rabies related patient … chief complaint after it has been processed by the ESSENCE chief complaint parser. (CCP like '%BAT%' and CCP …
  • Enhancing Syndromic Surveillance through Cross-border Data Sharing

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    In the fall of 2006, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) proactively began general discussions regarding surveillance issues of mutual interest. Both states, having operational… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Each state desired to view the new shared data …