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Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events
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Hospital emergency departments in Cook and surrounding counties currently send data to the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export… 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 -
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 -
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 -
A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements
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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 -
The Evolution of ESSENCE
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In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more