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  • A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more
    … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding …
  • Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • ED and poison center surveillance for the Great American Solar Eclipse in Oregon

    Content Type: Abstract

    Oregon’s statewide syndromic surveillance system (Oregon ESSENCE) has been operational since 2012. Non-federal emergency department data (and several of their associated urgent care centers) are the primary source for the system, although other… read more
    … Oregon’s statewide syndromic surveillance system (Oregon ESSENCE) has been operational since 2012. Non-federal … statewide syndromic surveillance system (Oregon ESSENCE) has been operational since 2012. Non-federal …
  • Evaluation of Praedico™, A Next Generation Big Data Biosurveillance Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • A pilot project to identify individuals who died from suicide and visited an ED before death

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2015, suicide was the 8th leading cause of death in Salt Lake County, Utah, and has recently been identified as a priority public health issue. For suicide, suicide ideation and suicide attempts surveillance, Salt Lake County Health Department… read more
    … historical trends and vital records mortality data and ESSENCE ED encounter morbidity data to monitor trends and … historical trends and vital records mortality data and ESSENCE ED encounter morbidity data to monitor trends and …
  • Utilization of Syndromic Surveillance to Identify Naled-Related Illness in Florida

    Content Type: Abstract

    Pesticide-related illness and injury is a reportable condition in Florida. In August and September 2016, aerial spraying for mosquito control was conducted in an effort to reduce the population of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in Miami-Dade County.1 Two… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) emergency department (ED) chief complaints data … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) emergency department (ED) chief complaints data …
  • Implementation of a Facility Based County Surveillance System Using Epi Info

    Content Type: Abstract

    Surveillance in nursing homes (Enserink et al., 2011) and day care facilities (Enserink et al., 2012) has been conducted in the Netherlands, but is not commonly practiced in the United States (Buehler et al., 2008). Outbreaks of illnesses within… read more
    … County (DOH-Hillsborough) routinely reviews the ESSENCE-FL system to assess syndromic trends in emergency … County (DOH-Hillsborough) routinely reviews the ESSENCE-FL system to assess syndromic trends in emergency …
  • Sharing Public Health Information with Non-Public Health Partners

    Content Type: Abstract

    Automated Electronic Disease Surveillance has become a common tool for most public health practitioners. Users of these systems can analyze and visualize data coming from hospitals, schools, and a variety of sources to determine the health of their… read more
    … to be easily and securely shared between public health ESSENCE users and non-public health partners; specifically, … to be easily and securely shared between public health ESSENCE users and non-public health partners; specifically, …