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  • A collaboration to enhance detection of disease outbreaks clustered by time of patient arrival

    Content Type: Abstract

    One objective of public health surveillance is detecting disease outbreaks by looking for changes in the disease occurrence, so that control measures can be implemented and the spread of disease minimized. For this purpose, the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a … outbreaks were detected by epidemiologists inspecting ESSENCE time series and derived event lists. The … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current problem was spawned by a labor- …
  • Comparing Syndromic Surveillance and Poison Center Data for Snake Bites in Missouri

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2010, there were 4,796 snake bite exposures reported to Poison Centers nationwide (1). Health care providers frequently request help from poison centers regarding snake envenomations due to the unpredictability and complexity of prognosis and… read more
    … database keeping track of every phone call received. ESSENCE, a syndromic surveillance system used in Missouri, … true frequency of snake envenomations. Comparing MoPC and ESSENCE data for snake envenomations would enable the MoPC … database keeping track of every phone call received. ESSENCE, a syndromic surveillance system used in Missouri, …
  • Technical (Tech) Subcommittee Calls

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2020
    • January 2020 (Topic: Conversion of ESSENCE Chief Complaint Parser to SQL; Use of MyESSENCE Library) - Recording,…
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    … Description 2020 January 2020 (Topic: Conversion of ESSENCE Chief Complaint Parser to SQL; Use of MyESSENCE … - Recording , Slides , Agenda 2019 October 2019 (Topic: ESSENCE Facility Status Filter Proposal; CCD Category … 1, 2021 - 12:00 2020 January 2020 (Topic: Conversion of ESSENCE Chief Complaint Parser to SQL; Use of MyESSENCE …
  • 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 patient’s …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …