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  • ESSENCE Features for 2019

    Content Type: Abstract

    The ESSENCE system is a community-driven disease surveillance system. Installed in over 25 jurisdictions across the US, the system is built on a single codebase that is shared across all instances. While each individual location can customize many… read more
    … The ESSENCE system is a community-driven disease surveillance … discuss the new features that are under development for ESSENCE in 2019. This is a chance to describe the features, … The ESSENCE system is a community-driven disease surveillance … discuss the new features that are under development for ESSENCE in 2019. This is a chance to describe the features, …
  • HAIISS Data Warehouse (HDW)FA new data access architecture for ESSENCE in the VA

    Content Type: Abstract

    The data elements required for the proper functionality of VA’s ESSENCE system are all currently available within VA’s 128 VistA systems. These data are made available to VA’s ESSENCE system via a series of complicated MUMPS extraction routines,… read more
    … elements required for the proper functionality of VA’s ESSENCE system are all currently available within VA’s 128 … infrastructure, a new data architecture supporting ESSENCE’s surveillance capabilities is becoming possible. … Data Warehouse (HDW)FA new data access architecture for ESSENCE in the VA A Mostaghimi1, G Oda1, C Lucero1, P …
  • BioSense Platform Data Flow - Part 2 - Introduction to ESSENCE Configuration for BioSense Platform

    Content Type: Webinar

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) is conducting a three-part webinar series to describe how data will flow to the BioSense Platform. This comprehensive series explores how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE… read more
    … how data are ingested into the BioSense Platform and ESSENCE application and how BioSense 2.0 data are being … In addition, we will cover data ingestion into the ESSENCE application, basic ESSENCE processing, and ESSENCE settings to consider. The … BioSense Pla,orm Data Flow Part 2 Data Inges5on into ESSENCE Division of Health Informa5cs and Surveillance March …
  • Integrating Poison Center Data into Oregon ESSENCE using a Low-Cost Solution

    Content Type: Abstract

    Oregon Public Health Division (OPHD), in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2012. Oregon ESSENCE is an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance system that captures emergency… read more
    … University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2012. Oregon ESSENCE is an automated, electronic syndromic surveillance … of these data sources.  Objective To enhance Oregon ESSENCE’s surveillance capabilities by incorporating data … University Applied Physics Laboratory, implemented Oregon ESSENCE in 2012. Oregon ESSENCE is an automated, electronic …
  • Dual Monitoring of ILI Syndrome Using the ESSENCE System

    Content Type: Abstract

    The threat of terrorism and high-profile disease outbreaks has drawn attention to public health syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of natural or man-made disease events. In this sense, the Miami-Dade County Health… read more
    … Miami-Dade County Health Department has implemented ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … Illness (ILI) syndrome in Miami-Dade County using the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance system, and their potential … Dual monitoring of ILI syndrome using the ESSENCE system Claudio Micieli, MPH, Rodlescia Sneed, MPH, …
  • Analytic Fusion of ESSENCE Clinical Evidence Sources for Routine Decision Support

    Content Type: Abstract

    Block 3 of the US Military Electronic Surveillance System for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources of data. These include administrative clinical encounter records in the… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) system affords routine access to multiple sources … Other CAPER data fields are related to case severity. DoD ESSENCE treats the multiple, recently available data sources … This project used a Bayes Network approach to create an ESSENCE module for analytic integration, combining medical …
  • User Generated SQL Queries Inform Evaluation of NSSP ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data sources and parameters needed for their query. Then they select from the available output options (e.g., time series, table builder, data details).… read more
    … As system users develop queries within ESSENCE, they step through the user-interface to select data … query execution time, and develop an understanding of ESSENCE query patterns. Objective: The objective of this … work is to describe the use and performance of the NSSP ESSENCE system by analyzing the structured query language …
  • Investigating Other Syndrome in ESSENCE from a Data Quality Perspective

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Louisiana Office of Public Health (OPH) Infectious Disease Epidemiology Section (IDEpi) conducts syndromic surveillance of Emergency Department (ED) visits through the Louisiana Early Event Detection System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data… read more
    … System (LEEDS) and submits the collected data to ESSENCE. There are currently 86 syndromes defined in LEEDS … fit any syndrome definition are tagged to Null syndrome. ESSENCE uses a different algorithm from LEEDS and only looks … symptom information to bin visits to syndromes defined in ESSENCE. Visits that do not fit the defined syndromes or do …