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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 -
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 -
Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System
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Data streams related to case severity have been added to the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the Department of Defense (DoD), as an additional… read more -
Utility of Data Fusion for Public Health Monitors: Lessons Learned from a Beta Test
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The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) supports the development of new analytical tools to improve alerting in the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) disease-monitoring… read more -
Automated Real-Time Surveillance Using Health Indicator Data Received at Different Time Intervals
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The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center have developed a hybrid processing engine that alerts monitors when a severe health condition exists based on corroboration among several sources of data.… read more -
ESSENCE II and the Framework for Evaluating Syndromic Surveillance Systems
Content Type: Journal Article
In response to the threat of biologic terrorism and the resurgence of virulent forms of infectious diseases, technologic advances are being applied to disease surveillance. Syndromic surveillance systems have emerged to capture and analyze health-… read more