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

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • What Can You Really Do with 35,000 Statistical Alerts a Week Anyways?

    Content Type: Abstract

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 statistical alerts each week. Local ESSENCE instances can generate as many as 5,000 statistical alerts each week. While some… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 … Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL), the developer of ESSENCE, and were early inputs into what is now known as …
  • Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Near-Real-Time Assessment of Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Nebraska by Using ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    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 …
  • Improving Syndromic Data Quality through Implementation of Error Capture Module

    Content Type: Abstract

    Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD), in collaboration with The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2011. ESSENCE is an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system that captures emergency… read more
    … University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2011. ESSENCE is an automated, electronic … NZ), which standardizes messages before entering ESSENCE. Mechanisms in the ingestion route (error-handling …
  • Identification and tracking of heat-related illnesses using syndromic surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The summer of 2010 in Maryland was characterized by unusually high temperatures. This type of increased and prolonged heat can potentially make residents sick, and extreme exposure can even kill people at highest risk. Numerous… read more
    … for the early notification of community-based epidemics (ESSENCE) was used to monitor heat-related illnesses … the state.   Objective This paper describes the use of ESSENCE, a syndromic surveillance system, to monitor …
  • Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more
    … from 55 hospitals. The ISDH analyzes these data using ESSENCE and initiates field investigations when human review … is the first local health department in Indiana using ESSENCE.   Objective This paper describes how local and …
  • Monitoring Population Changes for Emergency Management Support in Tennessee

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In late summer 2017, the United States endured two severe hurricanes back to back. On August 25, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas and southwest Louisiana, dumping more than 19 trillion gallons of rain. On September 10, 2017, 20 days… read more
    … Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics, known as ESSENCE, to monitor out-of-state patients seeking emergency … (Not-so Frequently Asked) Questions Q: Is there a data dictionary? A: Yes! Check out the .pdf …