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  • West Virginia BioSense Training

    Content Type: Training

    Marcus Rennick, Epidemiologist with the Marion County Public Health Department (WV), provides an overview/training on the BioSense System.   Time Overview: (45 minutes) Syndromic Surveillance and BioSense Overview (90 minutes) Hands… read more
    … Public Health Department (WV), provides an overview/training on the BioSense System.   Time Overview: (45 … Public Health Department (WV), provides an overview/training on the BioSense System.   Time Overview: (45 …
  • Oregon ESSENCE: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance

    Content Type: Report

    Syndromic surveillance is the near real-time monitoring of key health indicators in emergency department (ED) and urgent care visits. Oregon ESSENCE tracks the number of visits for specific patient symptoms using… read more
    … department (ED) and urgent care visits. Oregon ESSENCE tracks the number of visits for specific patient … only one healthcare facility submitting data to Oregon ESSENCE. Per data use agreements, counts from a single …
  • Maryland ESSENCE expansion to incorporate prescription medication data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, and public health emergencies. ESSENCE incorporates traditional and nontraditional health… read more
    … Maryland has a powerful syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE, which is used for the early detection of disease … the state were sending emergency department (ED) data to ESSENCE. DHMH began planning several years ago to increase …
  • Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition

    Content Type: Abstract

    More than a decade ago, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Defense, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) developed the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … Notification of Community-based Epidemics (Enterprise ESSENCE), which is currently used by federal, state and … the experience gained in the development of Enterprise ESSENCE, JHU/APL has developed two freely available …
  • ESSENCE Q & A

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented November 29, 2017. During this 60-minute session, Aaron Kite-Powell, M.S., from CDC and Wayne Loschen, M.S., from JHU-APL provide an overview of tips and tricks in ESSENCE to make it more useful for members and also answer … read more
    … from JHU-APL provide an overview of tips and tricks in ESSENCE to make it more useful for members and also answer questions regarding ESSENCE functions, capabilities and uses. … Presented …
  • The Evolution of ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public health stakeholders at city, county, state, regional, national, and global levels. The system was developed by a team from the Johns Hopkins… read more
    … In development for over fourteen years, ESSENCE is a disease surveillance system utilized by public … enhancements of the system. Document The_Evolution_Of_Essence.pdf Submitted by elamb on Thu, 05/02/2019 - 08:52 … …
  • Impact of training on Disease Surveillance and Notification Officers in Nigeria

    Content Type: Abstract

    Public health surveillance (also called field epidemiology) as defined by Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the ongoing systematic, collection, analysis, and interpretation of outcome specific data essential to the planning ,… read more
    … strategy.  Objective To evaluate the immediate impact of training on Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response … number not for citation purpose) Table 1. Results of IDSR training. Respondents’ performance Pretest Posttest Test …
  • Using laboratory and medical encounter records to identify impact of prophylaxis policies on group A Streptococcus in three recruit training facilities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Group A beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant morbidity and, on occasion, has been linked to deaths. Streptococcal surveillance has long been a… read more
    … Streptococcus (GABHS) has caused outbreaks in recruit training environments, where it leads to significant … public health activities. All Navy and Marine Corps training sites are required to track and record … measure against GABHS outbreaks at recruit training sites. Though streptococcal control program …