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  • Inpatient Data: A New Frontier in VA Biosurveillance and Public Health Monitoring from the Electronic Health Record

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    The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 medical centers plus clinics in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the Philippines. ESSENCE analyzes ICD-9 diagnosis codes and demographic data from outpatient and… read more
    … The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 … In 2010, a new instance was stood up (VA Inpatient ESSENCE) which receives weekly feeds of inpatient data from …
  • Limb Elephantiasis as Predictor for the Occurrence and Spread of Lymphatic Filariasis in Kano State, Nigeria

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    Lymphatic filariasis is one of the most prevalent of the tropical diseases, but is also the most neglected.Though significant advances have been made in the understanding both the disease and its control, there is general lack of information about… read more
    … that could be easily diagnosed by persons with minimum training. Therefore, the prevalence of elephantiasis could …
  • Mass Gathering Surveillance: New ESSENCE Report and Collaboration Win Gold in OR

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    The 2016 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Team Trials were held July 1-10 in Eugene, OR. This mass gathering included over 1,000 athletes, 1,500 volunteers, and 175,000 spectators. The Oregon Public Health Division (PHD) and Lane County Public Health (… read more
    … a mass gathering.  … Mass Gathering Surveillance: New ESSENCE Report and Collaboration Win Gold in OR …
  • 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
    … Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System …
  • Learning Outbreak Regions for Bayesian Spatial Biosurveillance

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    This work incorporates model learning into a Bayesian framework for outbreak detection. Our method learns the spatial characteristics of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with… read more
    … of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with … of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with … steepness parameter h) are learned from a set of labeled training examples. Since each example specifies the outbreak …
  • What Can You Really Do with 35,000 Statistical Alerts a Week Anyways?

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    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 statistical alerts each week. Local ESSENCE instances can generate as many as 5,000 statistical alerts each week. While some… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 … Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL), the developer of ESSENCE, and were early inputs into what is now known as …
  • Opportunistic approaches to evaluation of surveillance efforts in resource-limited countries

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    The Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delivers interventions to enhance surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union… read more
    … for the containment of the threat. The program delivers training on surveillance-related subjects through regular … among UZ veterinary officials and ii) the impact of training on their awareness of biosecurity. We also discuss … dangerous pathogens; threat reduction; effect of training; biosecurity; resource-poor countries Reference 1. …
  • Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System

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    Telephone triage is a relatively new data source available to biosurveillance systems.1-2Because early detection and warning is a high priority, many biosurveillance systems have begun to collect and analyze data from non-traditional sources [… read more
    … Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System …