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  • Jurisdictional Usage of the New ESSENCE Word Alert Feature

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … a manageable number of streams to analyze. Additionally, ESSENCE users have the ability to build their own case … these predefined and user- defined syndromic categories, ESSENCE did not previously provide alerts based on …
  • Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … In 2007, a statewide syndromic surveillance system (ESSENCE) was implemented and hospitals were recruited to participate. Experience with ESSENCE in the context of the ED data analysis, …
  • Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC

    Content Type: Abstract

    Florida has implemented various surveillance methods to augment existing sources of surveillance data and enhance decision making with timely evidence based assessments to guide response efforts post-hurricanes. Historically, data collected from… read more
    … of these data to inform decision makers. The ESSENCE-FL system is an automated and secure web-based ap- …
  • Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE): Overview, Components, and Public Health Applications

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Background: The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public health… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care … of severe weather, and other events of concern. The ESSENCE concept began in an internally funded project at the …
  • Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out … Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out …
  • Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System …
  • 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 …
  • A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … can be proliferated among health departments that use ESSENCE by investigating the potential use of cloud …