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  • Surveillance of Suicide Attempts and Ideation Presenting in Area Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In 2015, Idaho was among the top 10 states for suicides in the United States. Suicide as the cause of death for teens and young adults in Idaho was exceeded only by accidental deaths. On average, one suicide death occurred among all ages every day.… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program’s BioSense Platform ESSENCE* surveillance tool, which received data from 80% of … 65 or more years). These categories were derived from the ESSENCE software’s internal capability. Sixty-one visits … Syndromic Surveillance Program’s BioSense Platform ESSENCE* surveillance tool, which received data from 80% of …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 2): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Dr. Cynthia Lucero continues our Meaningful Use webinar series with an introduction to… read more
    … System (HAIISS)  Includes two software applications: ESSENCE biosurveillance system and QC Pathfinder … 5 Syndromic Surveillance in VHA First version of VA ESSENCE launched in 2005 but not widely used OPHSR became stewards of VA ESSENCE in 2007 as part of the HAIISS program and has been …
  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … categories (called “sub- syndromes” in the BioSense and ESSENCE programs) for analysis of electronic health data in … Harmonizing clinical condition categories in BioSense and ESSENCE will allow more consistency in interpretation of … and 4) must support the syndromes currently used by ESSENCE and BioSense. A spreadsheet was populated with …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … surveillance systems. MMWR 2005;54(Suppl);141–6. 2ESSENCE User Guide [Internet]. Version 1.0. Florida … ment/disease-reporting-and-surveillance/_documents/florida-essence-user-guide.pdf 3 International Society for Disease …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … in- creases in respiratory illness. BACKGROUND The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … patient visits associated with respiratory illness using ESSENCE syndrome definitions documented in … tivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp>. Microbiology laboratory tests assigned …
  • West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings—defined as events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host state—pose unique surveillance challenges. Attendees can be at greater (or high) risk for injuries due to… read more
    … care facility. An off-site surveillance team used NSSP–ESSENCE* to provide daily situational awareness reports to … discharged, and expired). Enhanced surveillance using ESSENCE enabled public health officials to conduct near … health officials conducted SyS at this event. They used ESSENCE to run reports for event organizers, Dept. of …
  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … the Early Notification of Community-based Epidem- ics (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM code sets can be found at: … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi ties/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 . Binary indi- cator variables were …
  • Introducing: Future MFT Facility Administration Tool – User Interface and Functionality

    Content Type: Webinar

    The NSSP Support Team will present an overview on the plans for a future Master Facility Table user interface (UI) designed to replace the current excel-spreadsheet update process. The presentation will feature mock-ups of the UI screens,… read more
    … the MFT and ADM_Crosswalk Is used for data processing ESSENCE tables: Are used by ESSENCE ‹#› Proposed UI 5 Current MFT Update Process Site … the mapping happens. 25 Example: Add a Primary Facility ESSENCE facility information: Site_ID Facility_Display_Name …