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  • 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
    … BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … can be proliferated among health departments that use ESSENCE by investigating the potential use of cloud …
  • Graduate-Level Syndromic Surveillance Course, An International Society for Disease Surveillance Project

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     Following the development of an introductory Continuing Education (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease Surveillance recognized the need to educate future non-… read more
    … (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease … (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease …
  • Improving Local Non-Communicable Disease Surveillance within a Changing Data Environment

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    LHDs are operating in a changing data environment. As household telephone use declines, national surveys are not sampling large enough populations to report representative local health statistics. As a result, reliable indicators from surveys such… read more
    … for LHDs is that they may not have the knowledge, training, or technical assistance needed to fully utilize NC … for LHDs is that they may not have the knowledge, training, or technical assistance needed to fully utilize NC …
  • Approach to Onboarding Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Data Into a Syndromic Surveillance System

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    Syndromic surveillance has become an integral component of public health surveillance efforts within the state of Florida. The near real-time nature of these data are critical during events such as the Zika virus outbreak in Florida in 2016 and in… read more
    … typically utilize emergency department (ED) visit data, ESSENCE-FL also includes data from non-traditional sources: … in order to address public health needs. Currently, the ESSENCE-FL team is actively working to incorporate EMS data …
  • Capacity and Needs Assessment for Establishing a Syndromic Surveillance System in Rural China: A Mixed Study

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    Syndromic surveillance has great advantages in promoting the early detection of infectious disease outbreak and enabling the real-time tracking of on-going epidemics. However, establishing a syndromic surveillance system required huge investment in… read more
    … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. Submitted by knowledge_repo… on Wed, … system, so as to design customized capacity building and training strategies. … Capacity and Needs Assessment for …
  • Can Syndromic Surveillance Data be Useful for Monitoring Respiratory Illness Activity?

    Content Type: Abstract

    A significant amount of resources and effort have been recently invested in syndromic surveillance systems. However, how these systems complement or compare with traditional public health surveillance systems, such as outbreak reporting, is not… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) syndromic surveillance system to monitor …
  • 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
    … County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) instance of ESSENCE on CCDPH servers. The cloud instance of ESSENCE has been enhanced to receive and export all …
  • Assessing Best Practices for Grouping and Analyzing Urgent Care Center (UCC) and Emergency Department (ED) Data Sources within Syndromic Surveillance Systems

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    The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) electronically receives both urgent care center (UCC) data and hospital emergency department (ED) data from health care facilities in 43 of its 67 counties through its Electronic Surveillance System for the… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL). Each submitted record is assigned to one of eleven ESSENCE Syndrome categories based on parsing of chief …