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Operational Experience: Integration of ASPR Data into ESSENCE-FL during the RNC
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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 -
ESSENCE Training: Sharing Queries
Content Type: Webinar
This presentation will focus on how to share queries in ESSENCE. In addition to teaching the basic mechanics of the application, the presentation will explore advanced techniques for sharing queries in features like myESSENCE, report… 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 -
Analytic Fusion for Essential Indicators of the Opioid Epidemic
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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 -
ESSENCE Features for 2019
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The ESSENCE system is a community-driven disease surveillance system. Installed in over 25 jurisdictions across the US, the system is built on a single codebase that is shared across all instances. While each individual location can customize many… 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 -
The Tradeoffs Driving Policy and Research Decisions in Biosurveillance
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Every public health monitoring operation faces important decisions in its design phase. These include information sources to be used, the aggregation of data in space and time, the filtering of data records for required… read more -
Time of Arrival Analysis in NC DETECT to Find Clusters of Interest from Unclassified Patient Visit Records
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TOA identifies clusters of patients arriving to a hospital ED within a short temporal interval. Past implementations have been restricted to records of patients with a specific type of complaint. The Florida Department of Health uses TOA at the… read more