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  • Development of Automated Data Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Understanding your data is a fundamental pillar of disease surveillance success. With the increase in automated, electronic surveillance tools many public health users have begun to rely on those tools to produce reports that contain processed… read more
    … Quality Indicators and Visualizations using Florida's ESSENCE System …
  • Learning Outbreak Regions for Bayesian Spatial Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    This work incorporates model learning into a Bayesian framework for outbreak detection. Our method learns the spatial characteristics of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with… read more
    … of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with … of each outbreak type from a small number of labeled training examples, assuming a generative outbreak model with … steepness parameter h) are learned from a set of labeled training examples. Since each example specifies the outbreak …
  • What Can You Really Do with 35,000 Statistical Alerts a Week Anyways?

    Content Type: Abstract

    The National Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 statistical alerts each week. Local ESSENCE instances can generate as many as 5,000 statistical alerts each week. While some… read more
    … Syndromic Surveillance Program's (NSSP) instance of ESSENCE* in the BioSense Platform generates about 35,000 … Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL), the developer of ESSENCE, and were early inputs into what is now known as …
  • Opportunistic approaches to evaluation of surveillance efforts in resource-limited countries

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Biological Threat Reduction Program (BTRP) of the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) delivers interventions to enhance surveillance of especially dangerous pathogens of both humans and animals within countries of the former Soviet Union… read more
    … for the containment of the threat. The program delivers training on surveillance-related subjects through regular … among UZ veterinary officials and ii) the impact of training on their awareness of biosecurity. We also discuss … dangerous pathogens; threat reduction; effect of training; biosecurity; resource-poor countries Reference 1. …
  • Syndromic Surveillance 101 - Module 1: Syndromic Surveillance Definitions, Uses, Data Types, and Syndrome Groupings

    Content Type: Training

    UPDATED VERSION AVAILABLE Click here to view an updated version of this resource  … read more
    … to view an updated version of this resource   An Online Training Course ISDS, in partnership with the Tufts … practitioners new to syndromic surveillance. This training is divided into four one-hour, self-paced modules …
  • Enhanced Influenza Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    Telephone triage is a relatively new data source available to biosurveillance systems.1-2Because early detection and warning is a high priority, many biosurveillance systems have begun to collect and analyze data from non-traditional sources [… read more
    … Surveillance using Telephone Triage Data in the VA ESSENCE Biosurveillance System …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United States 2014: Results from a Nationwide Survey

    Content Type: Abstract

    Spurred by recent advances in PH informatics, the implementation of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Records Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use), and the opportunities provided by the availability of the redesigned BioSense program, SyS… read more
    … partners to provide relevant CBA – information transfer, training, and technical assistance – to further … partners to provide relevant CBA – information transfer, training, and technical assistance – to further …
  • Using Gaming Tools to Train Disease Surveillance Professionals and Investigate Next-Generation Capabilities

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar will provide an overview of game-based tools for surveillance training and technology evaluation. The philosophy and methods of “serious gaming” will be presented through case studies and interactive examples. Panelists… read more
    … provide an overview of game-based tools for surveillance training and technology evaluation. The philosophy and … Epidig_Webinar.pdf … 10U-01 Using Gaming Tools to Train Disease Surveillance Professionals and Investigate …