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Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more -
SAGES Update: Electronic Disease Surveillance in Resource-Limited Settings
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The new 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), a legally binding instrument for all 194 WHO member countries, significantly expanded the scope of reportable conditions and are intended to help prevent and respond to global public health… read more -
Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources
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Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more -
Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more -
Super Bowl Surveillance: A Practical Exercise in Inter-Jurisdictional Public Health Information Sharing
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When the Chicago Bears met the Indianapolis Colts for Super Bowl XLI in Miami in January, 2007, fans from multiple regions visited South Florida for the game. In the past, public health departments have instituted heightened… read more -
Using Electronic Surveillance Systems in Resource-Poor Settings: Why and How
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Difficulties in timely acquisition and interpretation of accurate data on communicable diseases can impede outbreak detection and control. These limitations are of global importance: they contribute to avoidable morbidity,… read more -
Applications of the ESSENCE Desktop Edition for Outbreak Detection in a Resource-Limited Setting
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Recent events have focused on the role of emerging and re-emerging diseases not only as a significant public health threat but also as a serious threat to the economy and security of nations. The lead time to detect and contain a novel emerging… read more -
Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration
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The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more