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Incorporating seasonality and other long-term trends improves surveillance for acute respiratory infections
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As the electronic medical record (EMR) market matures, long-term time series of EMR-based surveillance data are becoming available. In this work, we hypothesized that statistical aberrancy-detection methods that incorporate seasonality and other… read more… Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA E-mail: sdelisle@umaryland.edu Introduction As the electronic … -
Biosurveillance applications for resource-limited settings: open ESSENCE and ESSENCE desktop edition
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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… Health Surveillance Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA E-mail: jacqueline.coberly@jhuapl.edu Objective This paper … -
Access to and use of syndromic surveillance information at the local health department level
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Syndromic surveillance data have been widely shown to be useful to large health departments. Use at smaller local health departments (LHDs) has rarely been described, and the effectiveness of various methods of delivering syndromic… read more… of Epidemiology, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC, USA E-mail: erika.samoff@unc.edu Objective To characterize use of … -
Description of the quality of public health case reports received at a local health department and potential impact on workflow
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When a reportable condition is identified, clinicians and laboratories are required to report the case to public health authorities. These case reports help public health officials to make informed decisions and implement appropriate… read more… Lake Valley Health Department, Salt Lake City, UT, USA E-mail: deepthi.rajeev@hsc.utah.edu Objective This paper … -
Fast subset scan for multivariate spatial biosurveillance
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The spatial scan statistic detects significant spatial clusters of disease by maximizing a likelihood ratio statistic over a large set of spatial regions. Several recent approaches have extended spatial scan to multiple data streams. Burkom… read more… Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA E-mail: neill@cs.cmu.edu Objective We extend the recently … -
Florida’s ESSENCE system - from syndromic surveillance to routine epidemiologic analysis across syndromic and non-syndromic data sources
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Federal laws and national directives have focused attention on the development of more robust biosurveillance systems intended to detect events of public health interest in a timelier manner. Presidential Decision Directive 21 calls for integrated… read more… Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, MD, USA E-mail: Aaron_Kite-Powell@doh.state.fl.us Objective Use of the … -
Enhancement of ESSENCE-based chemical surveillance by incorporation of real-time poison information center data
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Florida Department of Health has developed a statewide syndromic surveillance system based on the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). Authorized users can currently access… read more… Public Health Medicine, Tallahassee, FL, USA E-mail: Prakash_Mulay@doh.state.fl.us Introduction Florida … -
PHIN-MS deployment acceptability survey for the data transfer of syndromic data between hospitals and public health
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PHIN-MS can send and receive data securely and automatically. It is used by many hospitals in the state(s) to send data to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) for both our National Electronic Disease… read more… and Environmental Control (SC DHEC), Columbia, SC, USA E-mail: chengye@dhec.sc.gov Objective The objective of this …