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  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … categories (called “sub- syndromes” in the BioSense and ESSENCE programs) for analysis of electronic health data in … Harmonizing clinical condition categories in BioSense and ESSENCE will allow more consistency in interpretation of …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … in- creases in respiratory illness. BACKGROUND The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … tivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp>. Microbiology laboratory tests assigned …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … surveillance systems. MMWR 2005;54(Suppl);141–6. 2ESSENCE User Guide [Internet]. Version 1.0. Florida … ment/disease-reporting-and-surveillance/_documents/florida-essence-user-guide.pdf 3 International Society for Disease …
  • West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings—defined as events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host state—pose unique surveillance challenges. Attendees can be at greater (or high) risk for injuries due to… read more
    … care facility. An off-site surveillance team used NSSP–ESSENCE* to provide daily situational awareness reports to … discharged, and expired). Enhanced surveillance using ESSENCE enabled public health officials to conduct near …
  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … the Early Notification of Community-based Epidem- ics (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi ties/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 . Binary indi- cator variables were …
  • Introducing: Future MFT Facility Administration Tool – User Interface and Functionality

    Content Type: Webinar

    The NSSP Support Team will present an overview on the plans for a future Master Facility Table user interface (UI) designed to replace the current excel-spreadsheet update process. The presentation will feature mock-ups of the UI screens,… read more
    … of the proposed functionality, and allow time for Q&A. The future UI is proposed to: ·         Be supported … the MFT and ADM_Crosswalk Is used for data processing ESSENCE tables: Are used by ESSENCE ‹#› Proposed UI 5 …
  • Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more
    … to support the two user groups we have: the R Group and ESSENCE User Group. This first version of the graphic was … R Group for Biosurveillance calls ESSENCE Trainings and Q & A’s What is a success story and how do I write one? …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… 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 … the project will then investigate methods for putting the ESSENCE system in a cloud environment as well. This will …