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  • Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics

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    The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) operates over 880 outpatient clinics across the nation. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory’s Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes… read more
    … Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for the detection of abnormal patterns of disease … Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for the detec- tion of abnormal patterns of … Epidemics (ESSENCE) utilizes VHA ICD9 coded outpatient visit data for the detection of abnormal patterns of disease …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

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    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
    … of Health, Bureau of Epidemiology, Tallahassee, FL, USA E-mail: howard.burkom@jhuapl.edu Objective This presentation … Results This method was tested and validated on ED visit count data covering over 6 years and aggregated at …
  • 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
    … challenges. METHODS Information gained during site visits to functioning disease surveillance systems in low …
  • Mitigating data collection challenges with adaptive frameworks

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    Electronic disease surveillance systems can be extremely valuable tools; however, a critical step in system implementation is collection of data. Without accurate and complete data, statistical anomalies that are detected hold little… read more
    … Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: adjoa.poku@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper describes …
  • 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
    … Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: jacqueline.coberly@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper …
  • 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
    … Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, MD, USA E-mail: Aaron_Kite-Powell@doh.state.fl.us Objective Use of the …
  • A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements

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    National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more
    … meaningful use; interoperability; cloud *Wayne Loschen E-mail: wayne.loschen@jhuapl.edu (page number not for citation …
  • The Evolution of ESSENCE

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    In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more
    … Health80. 2003;80(2 Suppl 1):i32�42. *Wayne Loschen E-mail: wayne.loschen@jhuapl.edu (page number not for citation …