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  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … incidents among Pinal County residents. Data from HDD, ESSENCE, and the interviews analyzed in 2017 helped support … information obtained from hospital discharge data and ESSENCE. Combining hospital discharge data, syndromic … admitted patients with a HRI were abstracted from HDD and ESSENCE. To assess HRI risk factors for the summer of 2017, …
  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … (Same C_Biosense_Facility_ID in ARCHIVE, same hospital in ESSENCE) – Discern and identify “separate doctor offices” … appears in ESSENCE (for primary facilities) – Staging ESSENCE: Facility Status = Onboarding, Active, Inactive – Production ESSENCE: Facility Status = Active, Inactive  Review …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … [2] DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. … E/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 [3] CDC. 2003. Syndrome definitions for … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 …
  • How Oregon Tested its Mass Gathering Protocol and Mobilized Communities

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings (e.g., concerts, festivals, sporting events, political rallies, and religious gatherings) pose unique challenges to public health officials. Risks associated with large events can vary and are influenced by factors such as crowd… read more
    … and plan interventions. The guide provided reminders on ESSENCE functionality (e.g., develop queries, set up and … Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, known as ESSENCE. All 60 eligible hospitals send ED data every day … than 3,000 persons.” 2 Oregon Health Authority. Oregon Essence: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance …
  • Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Agriculture can be a hazardous industry. Farmers, and oftentimes their family members, are at high risk for injuries, fatalities, and illness. Risks include exposure to pesticides on crop farms and use of tractors, farming equipment, and other… read more
    … the extent of agriculture injuries, KDHE opted to use ESSENCE. The ESSENCE syndromic surveillance (SyS) software … collects prediagnostic data almost in real time. With ESSENCE, once a query has been written, sharing it is easy. … Platform’s ESSENCE to conduct syndromic surveillance. “In ESSENCE, all of these charts are 100% interactive,” the …
  • Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to detect disease outbreaks and other … Health Care System*Baltimore Medical Center. Using ESSENCE, daily counts of ICD-9 codes related to influenza …
  • Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more
    … The MCHD monitors the ED data using two methods: 1) the ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … with chief complaints that would not trigger an alert in ESSENCE, the MCHD also uses user-defined queries in ESSENCE … heating. Weather related visits Using custom queries in ESSENCE, MCHD looks for ED visits related to extreme …
  • Early Identification of Salmonella Cases Using Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    On June 7, 2008, federal food protection and public health agencies alerted consumers of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infections. As of June 30, 2008, 851 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). In Maryland, 30% of acute care hospitals in the … Metro and National Capital Regions, send ED data to ESSENCE. Although syndromic surveillance is not generally …