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  • Utilization of Public Health Surveillance Data for Early Detection and Mitigation of Drinking Water Contamination

    Content Type: Abstract

    Safe drinking water is essential for all communities. Intentional or unintentional contamination of drinking water requires water utilities and local public health to act quickly. The Water Security (WS) initiative of the U.S.… read more
    … and syndromic surveillance systems, such as RODS and ESSENCE, are the public health surveillance data streams …
  • Lessons Learned from a National Capitol Region Syndromic Surveillance Tabletop Exercise, Spring 2005

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes lessons learned from a regional tabletop exercise (TTX) of the National Capital Region (NCR) Syndromic Surveillance Network, from the perspective of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH).
    … potential public health emergencies. Figure 1 – Map of ESSENCE NCR surveillance area. METHODS The NCR TTX simulated … protocol; more extensive training of those who monitor ESSENCE, such as alerting to “unusual” clinical cases; …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document

    Content Type: Report

    In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) within the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)1, local installations of ESSENCE, commercial syndromic surveillance systems such as … codes. HDZ starts out by using the CSTE heat query in ESSENCE. However, to make sure they haven’t missed any …
  • What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?

    Content Type: Abstract

    One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE).3 Investigations are initiated for alarm signals …
  • SAGES: a suite of freely available software tools for electronic disease surveillance in resource-limited settings

    Content Type: Abstract

    Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a serious threat to global public health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified more than 1100 epidemic events worldwide in the last 5 years alone. Recently, the emergence of the… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). The current SAGES initiative leverages the experience gained in the develop- ment of ESSENCE; the analysis and visualization compo- nents of …
  • 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 …
  • Surveillance of Suicide Attempts and Ideation Presenting in Area Emergency Departments

    Content Type: Success Stories

    In 2015, Idaho was among the top 10 states for suicides in the United States. Suicide as the cause of death for teens and young adults in Idaho was exceeded only by accidental deaths. On average, one suicide death occurred among all ages every day.… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program’s BioSense Platform ESSENCE* surveillance tool, which received data from 80% of …
  • 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 …