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  • 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
    … inten- sive manual data collection process from DMAT sites, and delayed analysis and interpretation of these data … to monitor injury and illness for those presenting for care to ASPR assets such as Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) sites when they are operational in the state. The purpose of …
  • The Development of Virtual Data for Syndromic Surveillance Exercises

    Content Type: Abstract

    On 27 April 2005, a simulated bioterrorist event—the aerosolized release of Francisella tularensis in the men’s room of luxury box seats at a sports stadium—was used to exercise the disease surveillance capability of the National Capital Region (NCR… read more
    … essential to develop methods to generate virtual health care records that met specific requirements and represented both ‘normal’ endemic visits (the background) as well as outbreak-specific records … essential to develop methods to generate virtual health care records that met specific requirements and represented …
  • Diagnosis Coding Anomalies Resulting in Hemorrhagic Illness Alerts in Veterans Health Administration Outpatient Clinics

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Translational Research for Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more
    … Panel 2004-2005 Report Translating Research into Cancer Care: Delivering on the Promise … = Syndrome Respiratory Query 1: Syndrome based Query 2 = CC *cough* + CC *fever* Query 2: Chief complaint (CC) …
  • 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
    … disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and … and use collaborative systems to enhance quality of care and patient safety. While the emergence of a standard … disease surveillance through incentives to health- care facilities to implement electronic medical records and …
  • Evaluating Pandemic Influenza Surveillance and Response Systems in Developing Countries: Framework and Pilot Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    A pandemic caused by influenza A/H5N1 or another novel strain could kill millions of people and devastate economies worldwide. Recent computer simulations suggest that an emerging influenza pandemic might be contained in Southeast Asia through rapid… read more
    … (EWORS), a regional syndromic surveillance system with 7 sites operating in Laos since 2003; a new laboratory-based … through questionnaires provided to system operators and site visits. We will develop recommen- dations for system …
  • A Simple Method of Using Linked Health Data in Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a simple technique for utilizing linked health information in syndromic surveillance. Using knowledge of which patient encounters resulted in laboratory test requests and prescriptions may improve sensitivity and specificity of… read more
    … streams (emergency department chief complaints, clinic visit International Classification of Disease Ninth Revi- … who were assigned certain ICD9 codes during an office visit also received specific laboratory requests and … of linked lab requests and prescriptions filled for each visit. This tally ranged from zero to greater than 9 and was …
  • Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    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
    … derived indicators: Sick-in-Quarters (SIQ) and Escalating Care. Objective To evaluate new severity indicators that … derived indicators: Sick-in-Quarters (SIQ) and Escalating Care. Objective To evaluate new severity indicators that …