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  • West Nile and Saint Louis encephalitis - Arizona

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a part of the Arboviral Syndromic Surveillance Project in Arizona, which includes bi-weekly monitoring of syndromic data to enhance traditional arboviral surveillance. The syndrome was developed using BioSense 2.0… read more
    … using BioSense 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. The syndrome queries chief complaint and discharge … using BioSense 2.0 phpMyAdmin and later transitioned to ESSENCE. The syndrome queries chief complaint and discharge …
  • Survey of Syndromic Surveillance Uses

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance is the surveillance of healthrelated data that precedes diagnosis to detect a disease outbreak or other health related event that warrants a public health response. Though syndromic surveillance is… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) which it has deployed in partnership with the … information including data from Biosense and ESSENCE. The University of Pittsburgh has also developed a … information including data from Biosense and ESSENCE. The University of Pittsburgh has also developed a …
  • 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 … closed. To identify the origin of the spike detected by ESSENCE, the NJDOH staff searched local news reports for … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP …
  • 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 & …
  • Firework Injuries - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE for KS ED visits related to fireworks, particularly around the United States Independence Day holiday. Legality and slang for firework injuries will vary by region and some terms in this query are… read more
    … This syndrome was created to query NSSP ESSENCE for KS ED visits related to fireworks, particularly … region-specific. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data Source - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - … History, Discharge Diagnosis History OR CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …
  • Identifying a Meningitis Case through Syndromic Surveillance: An Example of Detecting Events of Public Health Importance and Improving Situational Awareness

    Content Type: Abstract

    The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data for situational awareness.
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data … the Early Notifi- cation of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and its ability to use hospital emergency room data … clustering. RESULTS On a weekend day in March 2006, ESSENCE identi- fied a neurological syndrome anomaly for the …
  • 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- …
  • 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 …