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  • Localized Cluster Detection Applied to Joint and Separate Military and Veteran Subpopulations

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Joint VA/DoD BioSurveillance System for Emerging Biological Threats project seeks to improve situational awareness of the health of VA/DoD populations by combining their respective data. Each system uses a version of the Electronic Surveillance… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current … for Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE); a combined version is being tested. The current …
  • Race and Ethnicity Data Quality Improvement Workgroup Calls

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    2021
    • December 2021 No call this month
    • November 2021 - No call this month 
    • October 2021 (Topic: Addressing Gaps in Public Health Reporting…
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    … (Topic: New Calculated Fields for Race and Ethnicity in ESSENCE) - Recording April 2021 (Topic: Race and Ethnicity … (Topic: New Calculated Fields for Race and Ethnicity in ESSENCE) - Recording April 2021 (Topic: Race and Ethnicity … (Topic: New Calculated Fields for Race and Ethnicity in ESSENCE) - Recording April 2021 (Topic: Race and Ethnicity …
  • Use of Severity Indicators in a Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Data streams related to case severity have been added to the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the Department of Defense (DoD), as an additional… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a disease-monitoring application used by the …
  • Opioid Abuse – Cook County Department of Public Health, 2019

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created to monitor emergency room visits related to opioid abuse in Suburban Cook County, IL. It is adapted from CDC’s Opioid Overdose v2 syndrome, and expanded to include terms for opioid withdrawal, injection site infections, and… read more
    … opioids. This syndrome definition was developed in ESSENCE (NSSP) and validated using manual review and … Document Opioid_Abuse_Syndrome_Definition_ESSENCE_Cook_County_2019.txt 3 views Submitted by Anonymous … opioids. This syndrome definition was developed in ESSENCE (NSSP) and validated using manual review and …
  • A Term-based Approach to Asyndromic Determination of Significant Case Clusters

    Content Type: Abstract

    Biosurveillance systems commonly depend on free-text chief complaints (CC)s for timely situational awareness. However, diagnosis codes may not be available soon enough and may have uncertain value because they are assigned for billing purposes… read more
    … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding … patient arrival times has been implemented in versions of ESSENCE and in NCDETECT [1]. While effective for finding …
  • Analytic Fusion for Essential Indicators of the Opioid Epidemic

    Content Type: Abstract

    Unlike other health threats of recent concern for which widespread mortality was hypothetical, the high fatality burden of opioid overdose crisis is present, steadily growing, and affecting young and old, rural and urban, military and civilian… read more
    … are to implement best-performing fusion methods as an ESSENCE module for the benefit of OHA staff and other user … intended to enable practical situational awareness in the ESSENCE biosurveillance system to target response programs … are to implement best-performing fusion methods as an ESSENCE module for the benefit of OHA staff and other user …
  • Increased Seizure Activity in Florida Associated with Hurricane Irma, September 2017

    Content Type: Abstract

    On September 10, 2017, Irma made landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 hurricane and subsequently tracked up the west side of the state. Due to the size of the storm, it impacted nearly all of Florida. The Electronic Surveillance System for… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL), the state’s syndromic surveillance system, … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL), the state’s syndromic surveillance system, …
  • A systematic approach to building and sustaining a regional and local biosurveillance community of practice

    Content Type: Abstract

    Although the advent of the ONCs "meaningful use" criteria has added significant new incentives for healthcare organizations to provide the necessary data for implementing syndromic surveillance, incentives alone are not sufficient to sustain a… read more
    … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past six years, and will describe the … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past 6 years and will describe the … in the north central Texas region with BioSense 1 and ESSENCE over the past six years, and will describe the …