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  • Tracking Health Effects of Wildfires: The Oregon ESSENCE Wildfire Pilot Project

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    Wildfires occur annually in Oregon, and the health risks of wildfire smoke are well documented1. Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real time was very challenging. Summer… read more
    … Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real … their surveillance needs and practices and developed a training program to increase capacity to conduct surveillance at the local level. Following the training, one of the LPHAs integrated syndromic surveillance …
  • Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public health informatics course

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    Public health informatics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that uses information technology and informatics methods to meet public health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians… read more
    … health goals. To achieve these goals, education and training of a new generation of public health informaticians … AMIA0 s 10 ! 10 program aims to realize the goal of training 10,000 health care professionals in applied health … - 12:27 … ABSTRACT Virtual public health informatics training: development and delivery of an online public …
  • An Innovative Approach to Surveillance Training in the African Region

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    Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) is a World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa (AFRO) strategy for strengthening national public health surveillance and response systems in African countries. The strategy… read more
    … more than 30 countries have conducted at least one IDSR training workshop. Limited resources preclude conducting … solution is to implement an electronic version for IDSR training. In collaboration with WHO-AFRO, we conducted a …
  • Hierarchical Filtering of ESSENCE for Routine, Distributed Disease Monitoring by the Veterans Health Administration

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    The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. Epidemiologists at the Office of Public Health (OPH) monitor the VA population at the national level. The system is also intended for facility-level monitoring to cover 152 medical… read more
    … The VA has employed ESSENCE for health monitoring since 2006 [1]. … alerts is impractical for the group of monitors using ESSENCE. Signals of interest may be masked by the nationwide … have been added to ESSENCE, but standardization and IP training are required to assure appropriate use. Objective …
  • Maryland ESSENCE expansion to incorporate prescription medication data

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    Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, and public health emergencies. ESSENCE incorporates traditional and nontraditional health… read more
    … Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease … the state were sending emergency department (ED) data to ESSENCE. DHMH began planning several years ago to increase …
  • 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
    … Notification of Community-based Epidemics (Enterprise ESSENCE), which is currently used by federal, state and … the experience gained in the development of Enterprise ESSENCE, JHU/APL has developed two freely available …
  • Lessons Learned from a DoD and Virginia Data Sharing Pilot using NSSP ESSENCE

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    The DoD and VDH both maintain local ESSENCE installations to monitor the health status of their military and civilian populations, respectively, and submit syndromic surveillance data to the NSSP ESSENCE to foster data sharing and collaborative… read more
    … The DoD and VDH both maintain local ESSENCE installations to monitor the health status of their … implementation of data sharing with a focus on personnel, training, and managing access and 3) communication between …
  • 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
    … In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public … enhancements of the system. Document The_Evolution_Of_Essence.pdf Submitted by elamb on Thu, 05/02/2019 - 08:52 … …