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  • Identification and tracking of heat-related illnesses using syndromic surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The summer of 2010 in Maryland was characterized by unusually high temperatures. This type of increased and prolonged heat can potentially make residents sick, and extreme exposure can even kill people at highest risk. Numerous… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) was used to monitor heat-related illnesses … the state.   Objective This paper describes the use of ESSENCE, a syndromic surveillance system, to monitor … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) was used to monitor heat-related illnesses …
  • Monitoring Population Changes for Emergency Management Support in Tennessee

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In late summer 2017, the United States endured two severe hurricanes back to back. On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and southwest Louisiana, dumping more than 19 trillion gallons of rain. On September 10, 2017, 20 days… read more
    … Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics, known as ESSENCE, to monitor out-of-state patients seeking emergency healthcare in Tennessee. ESSENCE captures data from emergency departments (EDs) in … or response. During Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, TDH used ESSENCE* to support all-hazards situational awareness. TDH …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 3 - Legacy Data Conversion and Transition Plan

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE application and how BioSense 2.0 data are being … BioSense Platform.  We will also provide a recap of the ESSENCE settings and Administration Tool functionality that … §  IntroducDons §  BioSense PlaGorm Update §  Recap: ESSENCE SeLngs §  Legacy Data Conversion §  Recap: Access & …
  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

    Content Type: Abstract

    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a … outbreaks were detected by epidemiologists inspecting ESSENCE time series and derived event lists. The … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a labor- …
  • Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more
    … temperature. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data sources - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge … AND cold) OR (frost AND nip) OR X31 Please note that in ESSENCE, the term "frost^bite" returns all cases containing …
  • A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements

    Content Type: Abstract

    National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more
    … BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … can be proliferated among health departments that use ESSENCE by investigating the potential use of cloud … BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The …
  • Two Unique Syndromic Surveillance Systems: State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest”

    Content Type: Success Stories

    The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) uses Health Monitoring Systems’ EpiCenter to collect, manage, and analyze real-time emergency department (ED) data acquired from acute care hospitals and satellite EDs. NJDOH integrates these data into a… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP BioSense … CDC notified the NJDOH surveillance team that NSSP ESSENCE identified an uptick in ED “Visits of Interest.” … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP …
  • Acute Flaccid Myelitis Diagnosis Codes - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM). Diagnosis codes were provided to KDHE by a CDC AFM contact and originally included approximately 100 codes that could encompass… read more
    … This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute … reflect AFM. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - … This syndrome was created to query ESSENCE for KS ED visits potentially associated with Acute …