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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 … -
Improving Rabies Surveillance Using Syndromic Data
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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 …