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  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … the Early Notification of Community-based Epidem- ics (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM code sets can be found at: … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi ties/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 . Binary indi- cator variables were …
  • Introducing: Future MFT Facility Administration Tool – User Interface and Functionality

    Content Type: Webinar

    The NSSP Support Team will present an overview on the plans for a future Master Facility Table user interface (UI) designed to replace the current excel-spreadsheet update process. The presentation will feature mock-ups of the UI screens,… read more
    … the MFT and ADM_Crosswalk Is used for data processing ESSENCE tables: Are used by ESSENCE ‹#› Proposed UI 5 Current MFT Update Process Site … the mapping happens. 25 Example: Add a Primary Facility ESSENCE facility information: Site_ID Facility_Display_Name …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … surveillance systems. MMWR 2005;54(Suppl);141–6. 2ESSENCE User Guide [Internet]. Version 1.0. Florida … ment/disease-reporting-and-surveillance/_documents/florida-essence-user-guide.pdf 3 International Society for Disease …
  • Socio-Demographic and Temporal Patterns of Emergency Department Patients Who Do Not Reside in Miami-Dade County, 2007

    Content Type: Abstract

    Visitors from areas outside Miami-Dade County have the potential to introduce diseases and/or strains of microorganisms circulating in their regions of residence. Immunocompromised and immunonaive travelers are at higher risk of… read more
    … the 14 hospitals of Miami-Dade County that fed data into ESSENCE during 2007 were included in the analysis. The … County visited EDs of the 14 facilities included in ESSENCE (4 % of all ED visitors in 2007). The majority of … = 3, p > .05). Two of the fourteen hospital EDs listed in ESSENCE received nearly half of all outsiders, one with 29 % …
  • Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more
    … to support the two user groups we have: the R Group and ESSENCE User Group. This first version of the graphic was … Committee Trainings R Group for Biosurveillance calls ESSENCE Trainings and Q & A’s What is a success story and … beginner and intermediate webinars, held monthly ESSENCE Trainings and Q&A sessions, led by the ESSENCE lead …
  • Use of Epidemiological Knowledge to Create Syndromic Surveillance Reports

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is an investigational approach used to monitor trends of illness in communities. It relies on pre-diagnostic health data rather than laboratory-confirmed clinical diagnoses. Its primary purpose is to detect… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) BACKGROUND Syndromic surveillance is an … necessary. In addition, the epidemiologist analyzing ESSENCE also monitors the county’s 911 Call Center and … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a data management/analysis system developed by …
  • A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems.
    … terms of both detection performance and ro- bustness, the ESSENCE Univariate Alerting Algorithm Test Framework … performance of the principal alert- ing algorithm used in ESSENCE to the performance of the EARS C1, C2, and C3 … of specificity and timeliness of detection. However, the ESSENCE algorithm is generally more sensitive to upsurges …
  • Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI

    Content Type: Abstract

    A large event such as the Super Bowl that attracts over 120,000 visitors to an area within a short period of time has the potential to increase the risk of communicable diseases and environmental hazards in a community in… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE), the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center data … the average of 2,315 for the first two months of 2007. ESSENCE detected a significant increase of cases with … have lasted for a maximum of 5 days (Figure 1). Both ESSENCE and 911 call center data detected a statistically …