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Emergency Department Chief Complaint Versus Discharge Diagnosis for Tracking Disease Measures
Content Type: Abstract
ESSENCE is a web-based syndromic surveillance system utilized by DHMH to detect and track outbreaks, suspicious patterns of illness, public health emergencies, and biological threats. ESSENCE ED chief complaint data is collected daily from 47… read more… ESSENCE is a web-based syndromic surveillance system … public health emergencies, and biological threats. ESSENCE ED chief complaint data is collected daily from 47 … emergency medical facilities). A chief complaint in ESSENCE is a free text field that lists the patientâs … -
Food Poisoning - Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Content Type: Syndrome
- Why the syndrome was created?
- Track food poisoning and potential disease outbreaks due to infected food
- Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.)
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… to infected food Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE Data sources the syndrome was used on (e.g., … to infected food Syndromic surveillance system (e.g., ESSENCE, R STUDIO, RODS, etc.) ESSENCE Data sources the … - Why the syndrome was created?
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Streamling Syndromic Surveillance Submission on a Dime: Oregon’s Experience
Content Type: Abstract
In 2012, the Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD) took advantage of the opportunity created by Meaningful Use, a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Incentive Program, to implement statewide syndromic surveillance. The Oregon… read more… The Oregon syndromic surveillance project, or Oregon ESSENCE, began accepting MUcompliant HL7 2.5.1 data in late … interest in submitting syndromic data increased, Oregon ESSENCE streamlined the onboarding process by creating … referred to as “onboarding documents”). Oregon ESSENCE also built a project management database to track MU … -
Jurisdictional Etiquette Workgroup: An offshoot of a Syndromic Surveillance Consortium
Content Type: Abstract
Syndromic data is shifting the way surveillance has been done traditionally. Most recently, surveillance has gone beyond city limits and county boundary lines. In southeast Texas, a regional consortium of public health agencies and stakeholders in… read more… and stakeholders in the 13-County area governs the local ESSENCE system. The Houston Health Department, (HHD) is responsible for deploying ESSENCE to the entire region. To effectively monitor the … surveillance across the area. Since Houston's instance of ESSENCE serves all 13 counties, the consortium instituted a … -
Analysis of Daily Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance in Hillsborough County, FL, 2015
Content Type: Abstract
The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (FDOH- Hillsborough) conducts enhanced syndromic surveillance on a daily basis. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL… read more… Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL) is the syndromic surveillance system used by … of Health (FDOH). During the time of this study, ESSENCE-FL receives data from 210 of emergency departments … 12 EDs and 3 UCCs in Hillsborough County. In 2014, the ESSENCE-FL system added a feature that delivers an automatic … -
Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Content Type: Syndrome
This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more… temperature. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data sources - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge … AND cold) OR (frost AND nip) OR X31 Please note that in ESSENCE, the term "frost^bite" returns all cases containing … -
A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements
Content Type: Abstract
National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… read more… BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … can be proliferated among health departments that use ESSENCE by investigating the potential use of cloud … BioSense Program, Tarrant County Public Health and the ESSENCE Team at the Johns Hopkins University APL. The … -
Two Unique Syndromic Surveillance Systems: State and Federal Collaboration to Identify Spike in “Visits of Interest”
Content Type: Success Stories
The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) uses Health Monitoring Systems’ EpiCenter to collect, manage, and analyze real-time emergency department (ED) data acquired from acute care hospitals and satellite EDs. NJDOH integrates these data into a… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP BioSense … CDC notified the NJDOH surveillance team that NSSP ESSENCE identified an uptick in ED “Visits of Interest.” … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). ESSENCE is an application housed on the NSSP …