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  • SAGES: a suite of freely available software tools for electronic disease surveillance in resource-limited settings

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    Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to global public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 1100 epidemic events worldwide in the last 5 years alone. Recently, the emergence of the… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current SAGES initiative leverages the experience gained in the develop- ment of ESSENCE; the analysis and visualization compo- nents of …
  • Missouri's Syndromic Surveillance Experience

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    This abstract describes Missouriís experience with syndromic surveillance. Missouri has expanded from acquiring pre-tabulated data from volunteers to receiving patient-level data via electronic feeds from 85 hospitals across the state processed… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and BioSense. DHSS acquired ESSENCE software in the spring of 2006 and Missouri began …
  • The Implementation of an Outbreak Management Solution in New York State

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    Most outbreaks are small and localized in nature, although it is larger outbreaks that result in the most public attention. So a solution to manage an outbreak has to be able to accommodate a response to small outbreaks in a single jurisdiction… read more
    … common vocabulary where possible. The OMS user guide and training were provided to those who will be using it to … User acceptance testing was completed in July and webinar trainings to all users were completed in September 2011. The … consists of a combination of systems development, training and technical communications enhancements. The OMS …
  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

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    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … categories (called “sub- syndromes” in the BioSense and ESSENCE programs) for analysis of electronic health data in … Harmonizing clinical condition categories in BioSense and ESSENCE will allow more consistency in interpretation of …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

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    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … in- creases in respiratory illness. BACKGROUND The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … tivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp>. Microbiology laboratory tests assigned …
  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

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    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … the Early Notification of Community-based Epidem- ics (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi ties/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 . Binary indi- cator variables were …
  • Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification

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    This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.
    … hand-classified into one of eight categories was used to train both CoCo and the new Maximum Entropy classifier. A … low and highly variable due to the low availability of training data. Epidemiological and clinical assessment from … by CoCo because the word had not been observed in the training set. CONCLUSIONS Maximum Entropy classification …
  • Tracking Community Naloxone Dispensing: Part of a Strategy to Reduce Overdose Deaths

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    The number of unintentional overdose deaths in New York City (NYC) has increased for seven consecutive years. In 2017, there were 1,487 unintentional drug overdose deaths in NYC. Over 80% of these deaths involved an opioid, including heroin,… read more
    … then dispense kits to individuals via community-based trainings. In this context, distribution refers to kits … then dispense kits to individuals via community-based trainings. In this context, distribution refers to kits …