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  • Approach to Onboarding Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Into a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance has become an integral component of public health surveillance efforts within the state of Florida. The near real-time nature of these data are critical during events such as the Zika virus outbreak in Florida in 2016 and in… read more
    … typically utilize emergency department (ED) visit data, ESSENCE-FL also includes data from non-traditional sources: … in order to address public health needs. Currently, the ESSENCE-FL team is actively working to incorporate EMS data into ESSENCE-FL to further increase public health surveillance …
  • Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series #1: Rapid surveillance of overdose morbidity - Developing case definitions, building queries, and analyzing results

    Content Type: Webinar

    This is the first installment of the ISDS Opioid Surveillance Webinar Series, June - July, 2017. Click here for Part 2 of… read more
    … drug, opioid, and heroin within and outside of the NSSP/ESSENCE system. The presenters also share lessons learned … Leverage existing state and national resources (BioSense/ESSENCE) � Action at local and national level � Track … and bold) CategoryCategoryCategoryCategory Query terms (ESSENCE Syntax)Query terms (ESSENCE Syntax)Query terms …
  • Carbon Monoxide Exposure - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to capture Kansas ED Visits with chief complaints related to carbon monoxide poisoning/exposure or similar diagnosis codes. The terms "heater" and "generator" are included to potentially capture cases of improper heater and… read more
    … poisoning terms or codes. Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge … poisoning terms or codes. Syndromic Surveillance System - ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - …
  • Lyme Disease - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.   This syndrome definition was created to explore Lyme disease through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the… read more
    … to monitor the disease.  This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) … to monitor the disease.  This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) …
  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor … clear. METHODS Depending on how the data are analyzed, ESSENCE may generate many alerts on any given day. To …
  • Impact of Patient Self-Registration in Emergency Departments on Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health electronically receives hospital emergency department (ED) data from 180 EDs located in 54 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL). Florida EDs have begun to offer … registration smartphone applications and websites. ESSENCE-FL receives ED data from multiple hospitals that use … these self-registration methods on the data submitted to ESSENCE-FL. This project investigates and describes how SS …
  • Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events

    Content Type: Abstract

    Hospital emergency departments in Cook and surrounding counties currently send data to the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export… read more
    … County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export all … to assess the ability of an Amazon GovCloud instance of ESSENCE to ingest and process meaningful use data, and to …
  • Missouri Emergency Department Visits for Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

    Content Type: Abstract

    CO poisoning poses a significant public health burden. It is preventable, yet it remains a leading cause of poisoning in the United States. An effective surveillance system is very important for targeting and monitoring CO poisoning.Methods or… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The ED chief complaints of CO poisoning in ESSENCE contain keywords such as 'carbon' or 'monoxide'. The … tool as cases of CO poisoning were identified in ESSENCE that were not identified in the passive surveillance …