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  • Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE): Overview, Components, and Public Health Applications

    Content Type: Journal Article

    Background: The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care practitioners to monitor health indicators of public health… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) is a secure web-based tool that enables health care … of severe weather, and other events of concern. The ESSENCE concept began in an internally funded project at the … local epidemiologists using it. Methods: The features of ESSENCE include spatial and temporal statistical alerting, …
  • Alabama Department of Public Health–Syndromic Surveillance Monitoring and Improving Data Quality

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Data latency limited the Alabama Department of Public Health’s (ADPH) ability torecognize and respond quickly to public health threats. Despite ADPH’s request that 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24… read more
    … 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24 hours of a visit, some facilities were … data’s usefulness for surveillance that, in turn, negated ESSENCE’s ability tofunction as a daily alert. Data could be … to better monitor data and resolve data latency in ESSENCE. They improved quality, timeliness, and utility by …
  • National Syndromic Surveillance Implementation Plan for ESSENCE and SAS - 8/14/15 Draft

    Content Type: Report

    This document is a DRAFT Implementation Plan from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for software development from July 2015 to December 2016.  At the in-person Governance meeting in June 2015, the CDC agreed to provide… read more
    … Key Issues Identified during Pilot that are mandatory for ESSENCE Implementation 1 30 Duplicate Existing Databases to … R Studio Server Pro to Jurisdictions 1 30 Transition to ESSENCE: Illinois (includes Cook) / Massachussets / Kentucky … / West Virginia / Kansas / Houston, TX 1 10 Transition to ESSENCE: Nevada / Utah / New Mexico / Denver Public Health / …
  • Increasing Local Access to Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the spring of 2005, the ISDH began using Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics  (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics  (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) … LHD in the state with access to its 14 hospitals through ESSENCE. However, because hospitals and local health … Marion County) did not have access to their data through ESSENCE, any syndromic alert follow-up conducted by the ISDH …
  • Enhancing Nebraska's Rabies Surveillance using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE

    Content Type: Case Study

    Accurate and timely reporting of animal rabies test results and potential human exposures is necessary to guide case management and define rabies epidemiology. Accordingly, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) collaborated with… read more
    … Using Electronic Public Health Case Reports And Essence.pdf Submitted by uysz on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 08:57 … using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE PROJECT/ACTIVITY TITLE CONTACT INFORMATION NAME: … in case management and NEDSS system usage. With regard to ESSENCE, new functionality was developed and deployed by …
  • Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service

    Content Type: Abstract

    Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system. One way to strengthen syndromic surveillance… read more
    … Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance … to support IT system interoperability with Oregon ESSENCE, so we sought a low-cost solution that would build … Applied Physics Laboratory, recently implemented Oregon ESSENCE, an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance …
  • Marketing a Syndromic Surveillance System to Hospital Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Oregon Health Authority (OHA), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented a syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. A critical component to developing and growing this statewide system is… read more
    … implemented a syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. A critical component to developing and growing this … department syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. Document … department (ED) syndromic surveillance system, Oregon ESSENCE. Introduction OHA, in collaboration with the Johns …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the … generate reports that detail which users have logged into ESSENCE, when the log-in occurred, and which pages within …