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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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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
    … University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2012. Oregon ESSENCE is an automated, electronic … department data. To strengthen the capabilities of Oregon ESSENCE, OPHD sought other sources of health-outcome … an automated solution to deliver OPC data into Oregon ESSENCE. OPHD’s growing interoperability infrastructure …
  • Keeping a Public Health Surveillance Practice up to Speed: a Training Strategy to Build Capacity

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    Public health surveillance practice is evolving rapidly. In the past decade we have witnessed the globalization of health threats, the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, and an explosion of easily accessible new technologies. This… read more
    … future public health challenges. We developed a five day training course that focused on the practical use of … future public health challenges. We developed a five day training course that focused on the practical use of …
  • Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization

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    The use of R is increasing in the public health disease surveillance community. The ISDS pre-conference workshops and newly formed R Group for Surveillance have been well attended and continue to grow in popularity. The use of R in the National… read more
    … This interest in R, combined with a desire from many ESSENCE users to create custom analytics and visualizations, … into the feasibility and ways R could be integrated into ESSENCE. Objective The objective of this project is to give …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of the Fever Syndromes in BioSense and ESSENCE

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    Syndromic surveillance refers to the monitoring of disease related events, sets of clinical features (i.e. syndromes), or other indicators in a population. Tennessee obtains emergency department data for syndromic surveillance in standardized HL7… read more
    … Data are received daily and processed by a Tennessee ESSENCE application and the national BioSense platform. … performance of the fever syndromes used by BioSense and ESSENCE, recorded temperature data was used as the gold …
  • Enhancing the BioSense Platform: Findings from an ESSENCE and SAS Pilot Project

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    BioSense was launched in 2003 by CDC with its primary aim to establish an integrated system of nationwide public health surveillance for the early detection and prompt assessment of potential bioterrorism-related syndromes or other public health… read more
    … functionalities and analytical applications, such as ESSENCE and SAS to improve the BioSense Platform. In … before data are transformed; and 3) conduct testing of ESSENCE’s functions to ensure the tool worked as intended, …
  • Data Sharing Across Jurisdictions Using ESSENCE Federated Queries

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    There are currently over 25 installations of ESSENCE across the US. Among these, there are 3 instances of multi-jurisdictional implementations. These include a centralized regional system in the National Capital Region for MD, DC, and VA, a Missouri… read more
    … There are currently over 25 installations of ESSENCE across the US. Among these, there are 3 instances of … National Syndrome Surveillance Program (NSSP) version of ESSENCE which will centralize data from many jurisdictions. …