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Integrating Poison Center Data into Oregon ESSENCE using a Low-Cost Solution
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Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2012. Oregon ESSENCE is an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system that captures emergency… read more -
Interpreting specific and general respiratory indicators in syndromic surveillance
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Public Health England (PHE) uses syndromic surveillance systems to monitor for seasonal increases in respiratory illness. Respiratory illnesses create a considerable burden on health care services and therefore identifying the timing and intensity… read more -
Jurisdictional Usage of the New ESSENCE Word Alert Feature
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Syndromic surveillance systems have historically focused on aggregating data into syndromes for analysis and visualization. These syndromes provide users a way to quickly filter large amounts of data into a manageable number of streams to analyze.… read more -
Key elements of infectious disease syndromic surveillance systems: A scoping review
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Syndromic surveillance is an alternative type of public health surveillance which utilizes pre-diagnostic data sources to detect outbreaks earlier than conventional (laboratory) surveillance and monitor the progression of illnesses in populations.… read more -
Kidenga: Public engagement for detection and prevention of Aedes -borne viral diseases
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Zika, chikungunya, and dengue have surged in the Americas over the past several years and pose serious health threats in regions of the U.S. where Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus mosquito vectors occur. Ae. aegypti have been detected up to 6 months… read more -
An open source inventory to evaluate public health surveillance systems
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A variety of government reports have cited challenges in coordinating national biosurveillance efforts at strategic and tactical levels. The General Accountability Office (GAO), an independent nonpartisan agency that investigates how the federal… read more -
Analysis of Daily Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance in Hillsborough County, FL, 2015
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The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (FDOH- Hillsborough) conducts enhanced syndromic surveillance on a daily basis. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL… read more -
Animal Surveillance: Use of Animal Health Data to Improve Global Disease Surveillance
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Since the majority of emerging infectious diseases over the past several decades have been zoonotic, animal health surveillance is now recognized as a key element in predicting public health risks. Surveillance of animal populations can provide… read more