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  • Technical Challenges from the Public Health Practice Community to Statisticians and Analysts

    Content Type: Webinar

    On May 28th, 2009, the ISDS Research and Public Health Practice Committees hosted a joint panel with the goal of bringing current challenges faced by public health practitioners to the attention of the research community at large. Members of both… read more
    … how+much+staff,+which+what+training?+   Syndromic%surveillance%   Epidemiologists% … Regional Implementations n  Miami-Dade County Region (ESSENCE) n  Hillsborough County Region (STARS) n  Duval …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … [2] DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. … E/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 [3] CDC. 2003. Syndrome definitions for … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 …
  • How Oregon Tested its Mass Gathering Protocol and Mobilized Communities

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings (e.g., concerts, festivals, sporting events, political rallies, and religious gatherings) pose unique challenges to public health officials. Risks associated with large events can vary and are influenced by factors such as crowd… read more
    … and plan interventions. The guide provided reminders on ESSENCE functionality (e.g., develop queries, set up and … Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics, known as ESSENCE. All 60 eligible hospitals send ED data every day … than 3,000 persons.” 2 Oregon Health Authority. Oregon Essence: Using ESSENCE for Mass Gathering Surveillance …
  • Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Agriculture can be a hazardous industry. Farmers, and oftentimes their family members, are at high risk for injuries, fatalities, and illness. Risks include exposure to pesticides on crop farms and use of tractors, farming equipment, and other… read more
    … the extent of agriculture injuries, KDHE opted to use ESSENCE. The ESSENCE syndromic surveillance (SyS) software … collects prediagnostic data almost in real time. With ESSENCE, once a query has been written, sharing it is easy. …
  • Obtainable and Sustainable: Open Source Solutions for the Future of Public Health

    Content Type: Webinar

    Public health can harness the power of increasingly available health population data to improve practice and effectively allocate resources to areas of need. The driving forces of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Meaningful Use are changing… read more
    … return comes from additional implementation services, training and software update maintenance 3 Open Source v. … Source for Public Health SAGES: an Open Source version of ESSENCE helps countries globally track disease Johns Hopkins …
  • Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System

    Content Type: Abstract

    When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more
    … code based systems. We use these cases to form powerful training and validation sets for a bag of words classifier. We train the classifier and assess its performance on the … Endie Waziri2 and Adebola T. Olayinka1 Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization …
  • Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence

    Content Type: Webinar

    This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more
    …     [DHSS  ESSENCE] …  subset  removed     •  Other  9  subsets  pooled  for  training   •  Op4mal  combina4on  of  thresholds  found   …
  • ICD-10-CM Conversion

    Content Type: References

    Curated list of documents supporting the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS. For more information about the project, visit the project description page on… read more
    … to October 2015 provides an opportunity for additional training and improving clinical documentation integrity. 2 … in pregnancy, episodes of care, and much more. • Code Training: Codes increase from 17,000 to 140,000. Physicians … the implementation of ICD-10 including budgets, staff training, vendor communication and policy and document …