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  • Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System

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    Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more
    … Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System …
  • Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System

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    Telephone triage is a relatively new data source available to biosurveillance systems.1-2Because early detection and warning is a high priority, many biosurveillance systems have begun to collect and analyze data from non-traditional sources [… read more
    … Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System …
  • Monitoring and auditing the transfer of syndromic surveillance data to ensure data completeness

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH. ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the ESSENCE system. Data sources in the Maryland ESSENCE system …
  • Utilities of Maryland’s syndromic surveillance system: identifying threats, case investigation and situational awareness

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    Maryland’s electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all acute care hospitals, over-the-counter medication sales and poison control data that cover… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) data includes emergency department visits from all … Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) uses ESSENCE daily for the early detection of public health emergencies. DHMH also utilizes ESSENCE for other purposes including situational awareness …
  • Near-Real-Time Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Nebraska by Using ESSENCE

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    CVD is one of the leading causes of death in the US, with 800,000 deaths being linked to CVD every year. Recently, the CDC reported that 1 in 4 of these deaths could be prevented by lifestyle changes, creating healthier living spaces, as well as… read more
    … Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Nebraska by Using ESSENCE …
  • Inpatient Data: A New Frontier in VA Biosurveillance and Public Health Monitoring from the Electronic Health Record

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    The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 medical centers plus clinics in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the Philippines. ESSENCE analyzes ICD-9 diagnosis codes and demographic data from outpatient and… read more
    … The Veterans Affairs (VA) ESSENCE obtains electronic health record data from 152 … in all 50 states, U.S. territories, and the Philippines. ESSENCE analyzes ICD-9 diagnosis codes and demographic data … In 2010, a new instance was stood up (VA Inpatient ESSENCE) which receives weekly feeds of inpatient data from …
  • Surveillance of poison center data using the National Poison Data System web service

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    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 … and the Oregon Poison Center (OPC). Implementing ESSENCE in Oregon provided the opportunity to automate … a daily data feed of OPC data to upload into Oregon ESSENCE servers. For OPC to do this directly, they would …
  • Trends in Emergency Department Visits for Influenza-like Illness and Antiviral Medication Transactions

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    The electronic surveillance system for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). ESSENCE utilizes a secure,… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) is the web-based syndromic surveillance system … Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). ESSENCE utilizes a secure, automated process for the transfer of data to the ESSENCE system that is consistent with federal standards for …