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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… sponsors, numerous collaborators, perceptive users and all of the dedicated members of the ESSENCE team. References … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more… areas: OE and EDE. Methods Biosurveillance is needed at all levels of public health, the local health clinic, as … algorithms. Each also produces case-level data lists, pie and bar charts of any available variable, and alert or … geographical shape files are available. In addition, all of the user interface components in OE are internationa- … -
Lessons Learned from a National Capitol Region Syndromic Surveillance Tabletop Exercise, Spring 2005
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This paper describes lessons learned from a regional tabletop exercise (TTX) of the National Capital Region (NCR) Syndromic Surveillance Network, from the perspective of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH).… included emergency manage- ment and policy makers, from all jurisdictions in the NCR participating in the syndromic … from local, state and federal part- ners representing all jurisdictions in the NCR for a practical experience … system, when using syndromic surveillance data to make de- cisions about public health emergencies: formal fol- … -
Essential Requirements for Effective Advanced Disease Surveillance
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Advanced surveillance systems require expertise from the fields of medicine, epidemiology, biostatistics, and information technology to develop a surveillance application that will automatically acquire, archive, process and present data to the user… read more… tra- ditionally relies on diagnosis, must be altered to de- velop an interpretation of less specific health indica- … tools must take into ac- count the normal deviations of all of the variables that comprise the background for the … and evidence-based decisions. Combining the trends of all available indicators can provide and earlier …