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  • 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).   …
  • Preparing Disease Surveillance Systems for ICD10

    Content Type: Abstract

    The compliance date for the ICD9-ICD10 transition is October 1, 2015. The hospitals have started the ICD9-ICD10 transition. However, not all data providers will transition the data at the same time. In order to facilitate some coherence to the data… read more
    … data processing functionalities have been developed in ESSENCE to allow usage of both classification systems … data processing functionalities have been developed in ESSENCE to allow usage of both classification systems …
  • Administrative and syndromic surveillance data can enhance public health surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Healthcare data, including emergency department (ED) and outpatient health visit data, are potentially useful to the public health community for multiple purposes, including programmatic and surveillance activities. These data are collected through… read more
    … platform is 54%. NSSP’s new data visualization tool, ESSENCE, also includes additional types of healthcare visit … platform is 54%. NSSP’s new data visualization tool, ESSENCE, also includes additional types of healthcare visit …
  • 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 …
  • Measles-related syndromes - Washington State Department of Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    In WA, we've been using a series of increasingly broad queries to monitor measles. The number of visits mentioning measles increases during an outbreak as a result of people seeking care because they were (or think) they were exposed, seeking… read more
    … review of the same records Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE (NSSP) Data sources: All clinical (emergency … review of the same records Syndromic surveillance system: ESSENCE (NSSP) Data sources: All clinical (emergency …
  • Utility of Data Fusion for Public Health Monitors: Lessons Learned from a Beta Test

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) supports the development of new analytical tools to improve alerting in the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring application used by the …
  • Using syndromic surveillance to monitor response to cyanotoxin contamination event

    Content Type: Abstract

    Cyanotoxins are unregulated, emerging contaminants that have been associated with adverse health effects, including gastroenteritis, when consumed at high levels1,2. In May and June of 2018 cyanotoxins were detected in the public drinking water… read more
    … activities with other state and local agencies. Oregon ESSENCE staff used syndromic surveillance to monitor the … activities with other state and local agencies. Oregon ESSENCE staff used syndromic surveillance to monitor the …