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  • NSSP’s Master Facility Table (MFT) Module Overview

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented July 25, 2018. The NSSP team is excited to share our progress towards adding the Master Facility Table (MFT) as a module to the BioSense Platform’s Access and Management Center, or AMC. The addition of the MFT module gives you, as a… read more
    … and any associated facilities as a single entity, which ESSENCE can then display in a time-series graph.  Each … ID for physician office #100 The goal is to view data in ESSENCE under one time-series umbrella vs. over 100 time … offices as “one facility” with “one time series” in ESSENCE vs. multiple time series (Same …
  • Early Identification of Salmonella Cases Using Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    On June 7, 2008, federal food protection and public health agencies alerted consumers of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infections. As of June 30, 2008, 851 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). In Maryland, 30% of acute care hospitals in the … Metro and National Capital Regions, send ED data to ESSENCE. Although syndromic surveillance is not generally … regarding the nationwide Salmonella outbreak, DHMH used ESSENCE as one tool for enhanced case finding. Previously, …
  • Missouri's Syndromic Surveillance Experience

    Content Type: Abstract

    This abstract describes Missouriís experience with syndromic surveillance. Missouri has expanded from acquiring pre-tabulated data from volunteers to receiving patient-level data via electronic feeds from 85 hospitals across the state processed… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) and BioSense. DHSS acquired ESSENCE software in the spring of 2006 and Missouri began … for 85 hospitals; as of July 2007, after unduplication, ESSENCE and BioSense process approximately 7,000 ED records …
  • Assessing and Optimizing the Accuracy of Physician Billing Claims for Use in Automated Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    To assess the accuracy of community-based physician claims for identifying 5 syndromes: fever, gastrointestinal, neurological, rash, and respiratory.
    … [2] DoD-GEIS. 2003. ICD-9 code set used in ESSENCE. … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC E/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 [3] CDC. 2003. Syndrome definitions for … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 …
  • Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community

    Content Type: Abstract

    Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read more
    … are re- grouped into 10 syndrome groups according to the ESSENCE (1) for subsequent calculation of syn- drome … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENC E/ESSENCE.asp [2] Hutwagner L, Browne T, Seeman GM, …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 2): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Dr. Cynthia Lucero continues our Meaningful Use webinar series with an introduction to… read more
    … System (HAIISS)  Includes two software applications: ESSENCE biosurveillance system and QC Pathfinder … 5 Syndromic Surveillance in VHA First version of VA ESSENCE launched in 2005 but not widely used OPHSR became stewards of VA ESSENCE in 2007 as part of the HAIISS program and has been …
  • Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more
    … The MCHD monitors the ED data using two methods: 1) the ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … Based Epidemics) system, and 2) a custom ISDH query. ESSENCE is used to detect unexpected elevations within eight … with chief complaints that would not trigger an alert in ESSENCE, the MCHD also uses user-defined queries in ESSENCE …
  • Spatio-Temporal Visualizations as Interface: Constructing Geographic Animations of Disease Surveillance Data in a Syndromic Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    As the Georgia Division of Public Health began constructing a systems interface for its syndromic surveillance program, the nature and intended use of these data inspired new approaches to interface design. With the temporal and spatial components… read more
    … awareness system. MMWR 2005;54(suppl):11-19. [4] DoD, ESSENCE: Electronic surveillance system for the early … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/geis/surveillanceactivities/essence/ess ence.asp Further Information: Karl Soetebier, …