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  • Improvement of Epidemiology Business Processes through the Evolution of Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the last decade, the scope of public health (PH) surveillance has grown, and biosurveillance capacity has expanded in Duval County. In 2004, the Duval County Health Department (DCHD) implemented a standalone syndromic surveillance (SS) system… read more
    … DOH moved to a statewide SS system and implemented ESSENCE which has been expanded to include 1) ED record data … newsletters, media responses); 3) reduction in staff training needs; and 4) augmentation of epidemiology …
  • Uganda and Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program Case studies in Applied epidemiology No. 001 - 815

    Content Type: Case Study

    WHO designated yellow fever as an endemic disease in Ethiopia in the early 1950s. Yellow fever, a zoonotic hemorrhagic fever disease (sylvatic and urban types), are endemic in Ethiopia due to its geographical location and climatic conditions… read more
    … 1, 2016 - 12:00 Uganda And Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program Case Studies In Applied Epimdemiology.pdf … CASE STUDY TITLE Uganda and Ethiopia Field Epidemiology Training Program Case studies in Applied Epidemiology No. …
  • Training Session: Mapping Tool between two code sets: ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS

    Content Type: Webinar

    Join ISDS on June 3rd for an instructional webinar on ICD-9-CM and ICD-10-CM/PCS mapping tools, including the newly released MapIt tool. This tool, which was developed by AHRQ and CDC, is an automated mapping tool that utilizes General Equivalence… read more
    … Document Icd10mapit_Slides_0603014.pdf Document Mapit_Training_Session_Website_Version.pdf Document …   49     1     ISDS  Webinar  Report     Title:  Training  Session:  Mapping  Tool  between  two  code …
  • 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 … bookmark, but accomplished the task after consulting the training materials. Novices, however, found the training …
  • 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 … hardware proved challenging and at times dissatisfying. A training username/password is created specifically for each …
  • 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 … … _ X __ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration _X__ Training and Resources __X_ Technologies and Methodologies … in case management and NEDSS system usage. With regard to ESSENCE, new functionality was developed and deployed by …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …