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Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks
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Reportable disease case data are entered into Merlin by all 67 county health departments in Florida and assigned confirmed, probable, or suspect case status. De-identified reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for… read more -
How do we present messy syndromic surveillance data to public health’s partners?
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With increasing awareness of SyS systems, there has been a concurrent increase in demand for data from these systems â both from researchers and from the media. The opioid epidemic occurring in the United States has forced the SyS community to… read more -
User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCE
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As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data sources and parameters needed for their query. Then they select from the available output options (e.g., time series, table builder, data details).… read more -
Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System
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Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more -
Tracking suspected heroin overdoses in CDC's National Syndromic Surveillance Program
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Overdose deaths involving opioids (i.e., opioid pain relievers and illicit opioids such as heroin) accounted for at least 63% (N = 33,091) of overdose deaths in 2015. Overdose deaths related to illicit opioids, heroin and illicitly-manufactured… read more -
Disaster Surveillance: Perspectives from Federal, State, and Local levels
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In this panel, the presenters will discuss their perspective in responding to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Hurricane Harvey made landfall on August 25th and over the course of 4 days dropped approximately 27 trillion gallons of water on Texas and… read more -
Evaluating the Utility of HealthMap as a Supplementary Surveillance Tool
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HealthMap collects and aggregates information from online sources to generate outbreak alerts based on disease and geographic location. This project will assess the timeliness and sensitivity of HealthMap based on outbreak posts from EpiCom, the… read more -
The Myths and Truths About Comparing Syndromic Data Across Sites
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One of the more recent successes of NSSP has been the introduction of more robust data quality monitoring and reporting. However, despite the increased insight into data quality, there are still concerns about data sharing and comparisons across… read more