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  • Falls - Wisconsin Department of Health Services

    Content Type: Syndrome

    • Why the syndrome was created? This syndrome was created to track falling related emergency room visits. 
    • Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE…
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    … room visits.  Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)  ESSENCE  Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., … room visits.  Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)  ESSENCE  Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., …
  • Free-Text Mining to Improve Syndrome Definition Matching Across Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in the chief complaint field are more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief… read more
    … Standard syndrome definitions for ED visits in ESSENCE rely on chief complaints. Visits with more words in … more likely to match syndrome definitions. While using ESSENCE, we observed geographic differences in chief … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) application in Idaho’s syndromic surveillance …
  • Using Cloud Technology to Support Monitoring During High Profile Events

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 … to assess the ability of an Amazon GovCloud instance of ESSENCE to ingest and process meaningful use data, and to …
  • Early Detection of Influenza Activity Using Syndromic Surveillance in Missouri

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is used routinely to detect outbreaks of disease earlier than traditional methods due to its ability to automatically acquire data in near real-time. Missouri has used emergency department (ED) visits to monitor and track… read more
    … via Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) tracked weekly counts of laboratory confirmed … order to evaluate the early warning potential of ILI in ESSENCE and improve ongoing influenza surveillance efforts … via Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) tracked weekly counts of laboratory confirmed …
  • Utility of System Generated Syndromic Surveillance Alerts to Detect Reportable Disease Outbreaks

    Content Type: Abstract

    Reportable disease case data are entered into Merlin by all 67 county health departments in Florida and assigned confirmed, probable, or suspect case status. De-identified reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for… read more
    … reportable disease data from Merlin are sent to ESSENCE-FL once an hour for further analysis and … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) to detect emergent disease outbreaks was … FDOH developed a syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE-FL, with the capacity to monitor reportable disease …
  • SAGES Update: Electronic Disease Surveillance in Resource-Limited Settings

    Content Type: Abstract

    The new 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR), a legally binding instrument for all 194 WHO member countries, significantly expanded the scope of reportable conditions and are intended to help prevent and respond to global public health… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE collects, processes, and analyzes non-traditional … leverages the experience gained in the development of ESSENCE, and the analysis and visualization components of … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE collects, processes, and analyzes …
  • Medication Refill - Idaho Division of Public Health

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The attached query was developed to track medication refill encounters in emergency departments in ESSENCE during evacuations or extended mass gathering events. The query was initially developed for use with the chief complaint, triage note, and… read more
    … medication refill encounters in emergency departments in ESSENCE during evacuations or extended mass gathering … medication refill encounters in emergency departments in ESSENCE during evacuations or extended mass gathering …
  • Data Sharing Among Three States in the BioSense Platform during the 2017 US Solar Eclipse

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2016, the BioSense Platform for national syndromic surveillance made substantial enhancements including data processing changes, a national ESSENCE instance, and management tools to support diverse data sharing needs. On August 21, 2017, a total… read more
    … including data processing changes, a national ESSENCE instance, and management tools to support diverse … cross-jurisdictional data sharing practices using ESSENCE and facilitated by the BioSense Platform for a … including data processing changes, a national ESSENCE instance, and management tools to support diverse …