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A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice
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Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more… in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past six years, and will describe the … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past 6 years and will describe the … -
Administrative and syndromic surveillance data can enhance public health surveillance
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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 … -
Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program
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Overdose deaths involving opioids (i.e., opioid pain relievers and illicit opioids such as heroin) accounted for at least 63% (N = 33,091) of overdose deaths in 2015. Overdose deaths related to illicit opioids, heroin and illicitly-manufactured… read more… System for the Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), allows for tailored syndrome queries and can … System for the Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), allows for tailored syndrome queries and can … -
Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts
Content Type: Webinar
On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more… how+much+staff,+which+what+training?+ Syndromic%surveillance% Epidemiologists% … Regional Implementations n Miami-Dade County Region (ESSENCE) n Hillsborough County Region (STARS) n Duval … -
Resolving the 'Boy Who Cried Wolf' Syndrome
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To date, most syndromic surveillance systems rely heavily on complicated statistical algorithms to identify aberrations. The assumption is that when the statistics identify something unusual, follow-up should occur. However, with multiple strata… read more… phrases, and combinations of variables were used to train the natural language processor (NLP) on which records … and alerting thresholds needed to cause a flag and (2) training the NLP to return a list of key chief complaints …