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  • Regional Syndromic Surveillance Data Sharing Workshops: Process and Early Outcomes

    Content Type: Abstract

    Sharing public health (PH) data and practices among PH authorities enhances epidemiological capacities and expands situational awareness at multiple levels. Ease of data sharing through the BioSense application, now part of the National Syndromic… read more
    … surveillance (SyS) data sharing practices with a training model that engages participants in collaborative … surveillance (SyS) data sharing practices with a training model that engages participants in collaborative …
  • Introduction to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)

    Content Type: Training

    The Introduction to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) course provides a clear, beginner-friendly introduction to APIs. This training is designed for epidemiologists and public health professionals who are new to APIs.APIs are essential tools… read more
    … a clear, beginner-friendly introduction to APIs. This training is designed for epidemiologists and public health … to identify and monitor public health threats.   This training series was funded by CDC Cooperative Agreement No: 1 NU38OT000297-03-00. The contents of this training are solely the responsibility of the authors and do …
  • Analysis of Daily Enhanced Syndromic Surveillance in Hillsborough County, FL, 2015

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (FDOH- Hillsborough) conducts enhanced syndromic surveillance on a daily basis. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL… read more
    … Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL) is the syndromic surveillance system used by … of Health (FDOH). During the time of this study, ESSENCE-FL receives data from 210 of emergency departments …
  • Jurisdictional Etiquette Workgroup: An offshoot of a Syndromic Surveillance Consortium

    Content Type: Abstract

    Syndromic data is shifting the way surveillance has been done traditionally. Most recently, surveillance has gone beyond city limits and county boundary lines. In southeast Texas, a regional consortium of public health agencies and stakeholders in… read more
    … and stakeholders in the 13-County area governs the local ESSENCE system. The Houston Health Department, (HHD) is responsible for deploying ESSENCE to the entire region. To effectively monitor the …
  • A Demonstration of Meaningfully Using the ISDS Recommended Data Elements

    Content Type: Abstract

    National Health IT Initiatives are helping to advance the state of automated disease surveillance through incentives to health care facilities to implement electronic medical records and provide data to health departments and use collaborative… 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 …
  • Graduate-Level Syndromic Surveillance Course, An International Society for Disease Surveillance Project

    Content Type: Abstract

     Following the development of an introductory Continuing Education (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease Surveillance recognized the need to educate future non-… read more
    … (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease … (CME) course in syndromic surveillance, the Education and Training Committee of the International Society for Disease …
  • Translational Research for Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 28, 2008 The following presentation was given as part of the Integrated Surveillance Seminar Series from the National Center for Public Health Informatics and provides an overview of public health informatics… read more
    … surveillance. This research led to the development of the ESSENCE Application by the Johns Hopkins University Applied … device, behavioral intervention education materials, training) Adoption • Promising molecule or gene target • …
  • Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia** - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome was created as a way to monitor Frostbite, Cold Exposure, & Hypothermia in Kansas Emergency Department visits. **Please note that the hypothermia portion of this syndrome was created to ONLY include hypothermia associated with low… read more
    … temperature. Syndromic Surveillance System - NSSP ESSENCE Data sources - Emergency Room Visits Fields Used - CCDD (an ESSENCE-concatenated field of Chief Complaint and Discharge …