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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 -
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 -
Syndromic Surveillance of Emergency Department Chief Complaints Post-Hurricane Wilma, Broward County, Florida 2005
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On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall on the southwest coast of Florida as a category 3 storm. The storm moved toward the northeast and passed through Palm Beach and Broward Counties before entering the Atlantic… read more -
Use of Syndromic Surveillance during a South Florida Mass Migration Exercise, Broward County
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On March 7th and 8th of 2007 authorities from federal, state, county, and municipal jurisdictions/agencies having mass migration response responsibilities (as per the Department of Homeland Security Operation Vigilant Sentry, as well as… read more -
Simulation-based Testbed for Bio-Surveillance Systems
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The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is funding multiple development efforts directed at enhanced platforms to support bio-surveillance analysts under their Bio-surveillance Ecosystem (BSVE) program. These efforts include well-integrated… read more -
A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival
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One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more -
Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources
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Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more -
A Dictionary-based Method for Detecting Anomalous Chief Complaint Text in Individual Records
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The success of syndromic surveillance depends on the ability of the surveillance community to quickly and accurately recognize anomalous data. Current methods of anomaly detection focus on sets of syndromic categories and rely on a priori knowledge… read more