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  • Streamlined Development of Analytic Fusion Capability for Health Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The motivation for this project is to provide greater situational awareness to DoD epidemiologists monitoring the health of military personnel and their dependents. An increasing number of data sources of varying clinical specificity and timeliness… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Data sources included clinical encounter records … R packages which provide more comprehensive tools for BN training and development. These results will allow us to improve the analytic fusion abilities of DoD ESSENCE, as well as in civilian surveillance systems Our …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

    Content Type: Abstract

    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a … outbreaks were detected by epidemiologists inspecting ESSENCE time series and derived event lists. The …
  • National Syndromic Surveillance Program Community of Practice (NSSP CoP) Expert Panel - Part I: Leading Community Groups

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented February 13, 2019. This webinar is the first installment of the 2-part NSSP CoP Expert Panel Webinar Series on Being a Leader in Your Community.… read more
    … Did you speak to a past chair? Was there any research/training involved? What would you estimate the … Did you speak to a past chair? Was there any research/training involved? What would you estimate the … Did you speak to a past chair? Was there any research/training involved? What would you estimate the …
  • Refinement of a Population-Based Bayesian Network for Fusion of Health Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health monitors make routine decisions based on disparate evidence sources such as daily counts of ILI-related chief complaints, ratios of positive lab tests for influenza, patient age… read more
    … The ESSENCE demonstration module was built to help DoD health … Surveillance System for Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Submitted by uysz on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 09:44 … The …
  • Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    An objective of the Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project is to improve situational awareness of the health of combined VA and DoD populations. DoD and VA both use versions of the Electronic Surveillance System… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection …
  • Analytic Fusion for Essential Indicators of the Opioid Epidemic

    Content Type: Abstract

    Unlike other health threats of recent concern for which widespread mortality was hypothetical, the high fatality burden of opioid overdose crisis is present, steadily growing, and affecting young and old, rural and urban, military and civilian… read more
    … are to implement best-performing fusion methods as an ESSENCE module for the benefit of OHA staff and other user … intended to enable practical situational awareness in the ESSENCE biosurveillance system to target response programs …
  • Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current …
  • Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data streams related to case severity have been added to the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the Department of Defense (DoD), as an additional… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the …