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  • Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
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    Syndromic surveillance offers the potential for earlier detection of bioterrorism, outbreaks, and other public health emergencies than traditional disease surveillance. The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) Office of… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Since its inception, ESSENCE has been a vital tool for DHMH, providing continuous …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out meaningful use syndromic surveillance data using the Health Level 7 (HL7) v2.5 standard. This presentation will detail the technical… read more
    … Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out … Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    • Why the syndrome was created?
      • Track food poisoning and potential disease outbreaks due to infected food 
    • Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)
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    … to infected food  Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE  Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., …
  • Content Type: Syndrome

    • Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to track falling related emergency room visits. 
    • Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE…
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    … room visits.  Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)  ESSENCE  Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    The 2016 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials were held July 1-10 in Eugene, OR. This mass gathering included over 1,000 athletes, 1,500 volunteers, and 175,000 spectators. The Oregon Public Health Division (PHD) and Lane County Public Health (… read more
    … a mass gathering.  … Mass Gathering Surveillance: New ESSENCE Report and Collaboration Win Gold in OR …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more
    … Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System …
  • Content Type: Abstract

    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 …