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  • Assessing Best Practices for Grouping and Analyzing Urgent Care Center (UCC) and Emergency Department (ED) Data Sources within Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) electronically receives both urgent care center (UCC) data and hospital emergency department (ED) data from health care facilities in 43 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL). Each submitted record is assigned to one of eleven ESSENCE Syndrome categories based on parsing of chief … out on the validity of grouping data from UCCS and EDs in ESSENCE-FL. This project will investigate and describe the …
  • Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    Many methods to detect outbreaks currently exist, although most are ineffective in the face of real data, resulting in high false positivity. More complicated methods have better precision, but can be difficult to interpret and justify. Praedico™ is… read more
    … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Tue, 08/29/2017 - … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Evaluation of Influenza Activity in At-Risk Sub-Populations

    Content Type: Abstract

    Near real-time emergency department chief complaint data is accessed through Florida’s syndromic surveillance system: Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics-Florida (ESSENCE-FL). The Florida Department… read more
    … Early Notification of Communitybased Epidemics-Florida (ESSENCE-FL). The Florida Department of Health relies heavily … the complete AHCA hospital discharge data to the ESSENCE-FL ILI syndrome and Influenza sub-syndrome) have shown ESSENCE-FL is a timely, effective tool to monitor influenza …
  • Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is used routinely to detect outbreaks of disease earlier than traditional methods due to its ability to automatically acquire data in near real-time. Missouri has used emergency department (ED) visits to monitor and track… read more
    … via Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) tracked weekly counts of laboratory confirmed … order to evaluate the early warning potential of ILI in ESSENCE and improve ongoing influenza surveillance efforts … via Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) tracked weekly counts of laboratory confirmed …
  • Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Reportable disease case data are entered into Merlin by all 67 county health departments in Florida and assigned confirmed, probable, or suspect case status. De-identified reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for… read more
    … reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for further analysis and … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) to detect emergent disease outbreaks was … FDOH developed a syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE-FL, with the capacity to monitor reportable disease …
  • Developing, Evaluating, and Disseminating Definitions for Syndromic Surveillance in Public Health Practice: A Guidance Document

    Content Type: References

    This document, released February 18, 2019, focuses on several key areas related to syndrome definition creation, including the basics behind a syndrome definition, steps to build a syndrome, evaluation of a new (or old) definition, and dissemination… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Platform, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … 11 NSSP ESSENCE CCDD Category … Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) BioSense Platform, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … as well as national level data available in NSSP ESSENCE. When using other data sources with this definition, …
  • Tracking emergency department (ED) patients with gastrointestinal symptoms during a Norovirus epidemic in Miami-Dade

    Content Type: Abstract

    From January to March 2010, thirteen outbreaks of Norovirus infection were reported to the Epidemiology, Disease Control and Immunization Service (EDC-IS), up from four outbreaks in the entire 2008 and same number during 2009. … read more
    … EDC-IS at the Miami-Dade County Health Department used ESSENCE to track gastrointestinal symptoms during a … (EDC-IS) at the Miami-Dade County Health Department used ESSENCE to track gastrointestinal symptoms during a … or vomit, or diarrhea, or gastroenteritis is performed in ESSENCE on a daily basis. The incidence of enteric illnesses …
  • Translational Research for Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more
    … surveillance. This research led to the development of the ESSENCE Application by the Johns Hopkins University Applied … 28, 2008 Joe Lombardo Joe.Lombardo@jhuapl.edu http://essence.jhuapl.edu/ESSENCEhttp://essence.jhuapl.edu/ESSENCE … surveillance. This research led to the development of the ESSENCE Application by the Johns Hopkins University Applied …