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  • Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using PraedicoTM, A Next Generation Application

    Content Type: Abstract

    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. Submitted by teresa.hamby@d… on Tue, 08/29/2017 - … syndromic surveillance alerting in VA using Praedico™ and ESSENCE. … Enhancing Biosurveillance Specificity Using …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • International Collaboration for Improved Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response in India

    Content Type: Abstract

    The International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, provides a framework that supports efforts to improve global health security and requires that, member states develop and strengthen systems and capacity for disease surveillance and detection and… read more
    … a cadre of trainers through the inter-related streams of training & education to enhance knowledge and skills and the … a cadre of trainers through the inter-related streams of training & education to enhance knowledge and skills and the …
  • 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 …
  • Evaluation of DoD Syndrome Mapping and Baseline for ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Transition

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Department of Defense conducts syndromic surveillance of health encounter visits of Military Health System (MHS) beneficiaries. Providers within the MHS assign up to 10 diagnosis codes to each health encounter visit. The diagnosis codes are… read more
    … data within the BioSense system currently utilizes DoD ESSENCE syndrome mappings. The Master Mapping Reference … encoding systems to prepare for the transition. The DoD ESSENCE and MMRT syndrome definitions are presented in this …
  • Intimate Partner Violence v1 - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    The query was developed by NSSP and CDC Division of Violence Prevention. It was developed to assist rape prevention coordinators and project officers in doing sexual violence and intimate partner violence surveillance using syndromic surveillance.… read more
    … violence surveillance using syndromic surveillance. An ESSENCE CCDD category has been created and its called … violence surveillance using syndromic surveillance. An ESSENCE CCDD category has been created and its called …