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  • Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization

    Content Type: Abstract

    The use of R is increasing in the public health disease surveillance community. The ISDS pre-conference workshops and newly formed R Group for Surveillance have been well attended and continue to grow in popularity. The use of R in the National… read more
    … This interest in R, combined with a desire from many ESSENCE users to create custom analytics and visualizations, … into the feasibility and ways R could be integrated into ESSENCE. Objective The objective of this project is to give … users the ability to run custom R scripts from within the ESSENCE system. This capability would allow for custom …
  • Tracking Health Effects of Wildfires: The Oregon ESSENCE Wildfire Pilot Project

    Content Type: Abstract

    Wildfires occur annually in Oregon, and the health risks of wildfire smoke are well documented1. Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real time was very challenging. Summer… read more
    … Before implementing syndromic surveillance through Oregon ESSENCE, assessing the health effects of wildfires in real … eligible Oregon emergency departments (EDs) reporting to ESSENCE. The Oregon ESSENCE team developed a wildfire surveillance pilot project …
  • Updated Jan 2022 - How to Use RStudio with ESSENCE API Guide

    Content Type: Training

    This RStudio API guide provides an overview of the ESSENCE APIs and how to access them through RStudio. We will begin with a very brief explanation of application programming interfaces (APIs), then list what APIs are available in ESSENCE, and… read more
    … This RStudio API guide provides an overview of the ESSENCE APIs and how to access them through RStudio. We will … interfaces (APIs), then list what APIs are available in ESSENCE, and finally expose you to basic examples of R code … packages so that you can start using RStudio to access ESSENCE data, create your own R Markdown reports and Shiny …
  • Sensitivity and Specificity of the Fever Syndromes in BioSense and ESSENCE

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance refers to the monitoring of disease related events, sets of clinical features (i.e. syndromes), or other indicators in a population. Tennessee obtains emergency department data for syndromic surveillance in standardized HL7… read more
    … Data are received daily and processed by a Tennessee ESSENCE application and the national BioSense platform. … for each record. The differences between the BioSense and ESSENCE syndrome assignments have not been well defined. … temperature is provided. Currently, both the BioSense and ESSENCE syndrome definitions exclude recorded temperature …
  • Utility of the ESSENCE System for Surveillance of Influenza-like Illness (ILI) in Miami-Dade County

    Content Type: Abstract

    The threat of pandemic and seasonal influenza has drawn attention to syndromic surveillance systems for early detection of influenza-like illness. Since 2005, the Miami-Dade County Health Department has implemented ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance… read more
    … the Miami-Dade County Health Department has implemented ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … information. This study evaluates the ability of the ESSENCE ILI chief complaint grouping for identifying true … Utility of the ESSENCE system for surveillance of Influenza-like Illness …
  • Jurisdictional Usage of the New ESSENCE Word Alert Feature

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic surveillance systems have historically focused on aggregating data into syndromes for analysis and visualization. These syndromes provide users a way to quickly filter large amounts of data into a manageable number of streams to analyze.… read more
    … a manageable number of streams to analyze. Additionally, ESSENCE users have the ability to build their own case … these predefined and user- defined syndromic categories, ESSENCE did not previously provide alerts based on … is to describe the new word alert capability in ESSENCE and how it has been used by the Florida Department …
  • Evaluation of ESSENCE in the Cloud Using Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In November of 2011 BioSense 2.0 went live to provide tools for public health departments to process, store, and analyze meaningful use syndromic surveillance data. In February of 2012 ESSENCE was adapted to support meaningful use syndromic… read more
    … use syndromic surveillance data. In February of 2012 ESSENCE was adapted to support meaningful use syndromic … County Public Health Department agreed to pilot the ESSENCE system and evaluate its performance compared to a local version ESSENCE they currently used. The project determined the …
  • Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting Practices in Miami-Dade County

    Content Type: Abstract

    To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare practitioners in order to improve communicable disease reporting
    … To illustrate how ESSENCE can been utilized to collaborate with healthcare … Innovative Uses for ESSENCE to Improve Standard Communicable Disease Reporting … in 14 of the largest hospitals since 2005. Although ESSENCE’s primary aim is to detect outbreaks or bioterrorism …