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Advanced Querying Features for Disease Surveillance Systems
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Automated disease surveillance systems that analyze data by syndrome categories have been used to look for outbreaks of disease for about 10 years. Most of these systems notify users of increases in the prevalence of reports in syndrome categories… read more -
An Innovative Design for Conducting Simulation Exercises on Electronic Disease Surveillance System
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In order to be best prepared to identify health events using electronic disease surveillance systems, it is vital for users to participate in regular exercises that realistically simulate how events may present in their system following disease… read more -
Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
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We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI. -
Jurisdictional Usage of the New ESSENCE Word Alert Feature
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Syndromic surveillance systems have historically focused on aggregating data into syndromes for analysis and visualization. These syndromes provide users a way to quickly filter large amounts of data into a manageable number of streams to analyze.… read more -
Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness
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ASPR deploys clinical assets, including an EMR system, to the ground per state requests during planned and no-notice events. The analysis of patient data collected by deployed federal personnel is an integral part of ASPR and FDOH’s surveillance… read more -
Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data
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In November of 2011 BioSense 2.0 went live to provide tools for public health departments to process, store, and analyze meaningful use syndromic surveillance data. In February of 2012 ESSENCE was adapted to support meaningful use syndromic… read more -
Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data
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Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out meaningful use syndromic surveillance data using the Health Level 7 (HL7) v2.5 standard. This presentation will detail the technical… read more -
Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System
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Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more