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  • Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application

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    Many methods to detect outbreaks currently exist, although most are ineffective in the face of real data, resulting in high false positivity. More complicated methods have better precision, but can be difficult to interpret and justify. Praedico™ is… read more
    … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. 8 views Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Tue, … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. …
  • Comparison of National and Local Syndromic Surveillance Data - Cook County, IL, 2017

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    In 2005, the Cook County Department of Public Health (CCDPH) began using the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as an emergency department (ED)-based local syndromic surveillance program… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as an emergency department (ED)-based local … Surveillance Program (NSSP), which transitioned to an ESSENCE interface in 2016. As of December 2016, 20 (87%) of … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as an emergency department (ED)-based local …
  • Coverage and Timeliness of Combined Military and Veteran Surveillance Systems

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    An objective of the Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project is to improve situational awareness of the health of combined VA and DoD populations. DoD and VA both use versions of the Electronic Surveillance System… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE). With a retrospective outpatient data collection …
  • Carbon Monoxide Exposure V2 - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

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    KDHE has updated the exhisting CO Poisoning Surveillance queries. Version 1 can be found here https://www.surveillancerepository.org/carbon-monoxide-exposure-kansas-department-health-and-environment Previously, we were querying for carbon… read more
    … for carbon monoxide-related cases by using the NSSP ESSENCE SubSyndrome for COPoisoning coupled with an ICD10 CM … Finally, current NSSP ESSENCE updates have allowed for querying across multiple … the need for de-duplicating the data.   System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source - ED Visits Fields Used - CHief …
  • How Missing Discharge Diagnosis Data in Syndromic Surveillance Leads to Coverage Gaps

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    Indiana utilizes the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to collect and analyze data from participating hospital emergency departments. This real-time collection of health related data is… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to collect and analyze data from participating … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to collect and analyze data from participating …
  • The RHINO Community of Practice: Building a Space for Data Users and Enthusiasts in Washington State

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    Prior to June 2016, there were 45 registered users of syndromic surveillance data in Washington State, with 29 (64.4%) representing 5 of Washington’s 35 local health jurisdictions and 16 (35.6%) at the state level. Of those registered users, 9 (8.… read more
    … Of those registered users, 9 (8.8%) had logged into ESSENCE at least once in the 6 months before October 2016. … Of those registered users, 9 (8.8%) had logged into ESSENCE at least once in the 6 months before October 2016. …
  • Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current …
  • A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters

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    Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more
    … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding …