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Monitoring Out-of-State Patients during a 2017 Hurricane Response using ESSENCE
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Syndromic surveillance is the monitoring of symptom combinations (i.e., syndromes) or other indicators within a population to inform public health actions. The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) collects emergency department (ED) data from more… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) in the BioSense Platform supported by the National … Agency (TEMA). Objective: To demonstrate the use of ESSENCE in the BioSense Platform to monitor out-of-State … -
Data Sharing Among Three States in the BioSense Platform during the 2017 US Solar Eclipse
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In 2016, the BioSense Platform for national syndromic surveillance made substantial enhancements including data processing changes, a national ESSENCE instance, and management tools to support diverse data sharing needs. On August 21, 2017, a total… read more… including data processing changes, a national ESSENCE instance, and management tools to support diverse … cross-jurisdictional data sharing practices using ESSENCE and facilitated by the BioSense Platform for a …