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  • Oregon ESSENCE HL7 Messaging Guide for Syndromic Surveillance: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Data

    Content Type: State Specific Implementation Guide

    Version 1.6 The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) compiled this guide for hospitals with emergency departments to aid in the submission of syndromic surveillance data to the Oregon Public Health Division’s syndromic surveillance project (Oregon… read more
    … Health Division’s syndromic surveillance project (Oregon ESSENCE). (We also accept urgent care data from these … Health Division’s syndromic surveillance project (Oregon ESSENCE). (We also accept urgent care data from these …
  • Enabling ESSENCE to Process and Export Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out meaningful use syndromic surveillance data using the Health Level 7 (HL7) v2.5 standard. This presentation will detail the technical… read more
    … Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out … Objective: The objective of this project is to enable the ESSENCE system to read in, utilize, and export out …
  • Effectiveness of Using a Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis Query in ESSENCE-FL to Identify Possible Tuberculosis Patients and Contacts in Hillsborough County, Florida

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL) is a web-based application for use by public health professionals within the Florida Department of Health (FDOH). The main source of… read more
    … Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL) is a web-based application for use by public … Department of Health (FDOH). The main source of data for ESSENCE-FL is emergency department (ED) data. Ten hospitals …
  • Using ESSENCE-FL for Situational Awareness after National Reports of Increased Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) Infections with Severe Outcomes, September 2014

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) receives daily (or bi-hourly) data from 184 emergency departments (ED) from around Florida. Additionally, 30 urgent care centers submit daily… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) receives daily (or bi-hourly) data from 184 … six days after the start of each school year in Florida, ESSENCE-FL shows increased respiratory illness visits in the …
  • Alabama Department of Public Health–Syndromic Surveillance Monitoring and Improving Data Quality

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Data latency limited the Alabama Department of Public Health’s (ADPH) ability torecognize and respond quickly to public health threats. Despite ADPH’s request that 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24… read more
    … 95% of syndromic surveillance (SyS) data be submitted to ESSENCE* within 24 hours of a visit, some facilities were … data’s usefulness for surveillance that, in turn, negated ESSENCE’s ability tofunction as a daily alert. Data could be …
  • National Syndromic Surveillance Implementation Plan for ESSENCE and SAS - 8/14/15 Draft

    Content Type: Report

    This document is a DRAFT Implementation Plan from the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) for software development from July 2015 to December 2016.  At the in-person Governance meeting in June 2015, the CDC agreed to provide… read more
    … Key Issues Identified during Pilot that are mandatory for ESSENCE Implementation 1 30 Duplicate Existing Databases to … R Studio Server Pro to Jurisdictions 1 30 Transition to ESSENCE: Illinois (includes Cook) / Massachussets / Kentucky …
  • Increasing Local Access to Syndromic Surveillance Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    In the spring of 2005, the ISDH began using Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics  (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) chief complaint data for syndromic surveillance… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics  (ESSENCE) application to analyze emergency department (ED) … LHD in the state with access to its 14 hospitals through ESSENCE. However, because hospitals and local health … Marion County) did not have access to their data through ESSENCE, any syndromic alert follow-up conducted by the ISDH …
  • Enhancing Nebraska's Rabies Surveillance using Electronic Public Health Cases Reports and ESSENCE

    Content Type: Case Study

    Accurate and timely reporting of animal rabies test results and potential human exposures is necessary to guide case management and define rabies epidemiology. Accordingly, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (NDHHS) collaborated with… read more
    … Using Electronic Public Health Case Reports And Essence.pdf Submitted by uysz on Fri, 09/29/2017 - 08:57 … … in case management and NEDSS system usage. With regard to ESSENCE, new functionality was developed and deployed by …