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  • Using GI Syndrome Data as an Early Warning Tool for Norovirus Outbreak Activity

    Content Type: Abstract

    Norovirus infection results in considerable morbidity in the United States where an estimated 21 million illnesses, 70,000 hospitalizations, and 800 deaths are caused by NV annually. Additionally, NV is responsible for approximately 50% of foodborne… read more
    … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to monitor and detect public health events across Virginia. ESSENCE performs automated parsing of chief complaint text …
  • Influenza laboratory testing and its application in timely Department of Defense biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Timely influenza data can help public health decision-makers identify influenza outbreaks and respond with preventative measures. DoD ESSENCE has the unique advantage of ingesting multiple data sources from the Military Health System (MHS),… read more
    … outbreaks and respond with preventative measures. DoD ESSENCE has the unique advantage of ingesting multiple data … for Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) Submitted by elamb on Tue, 06/18/2019 - 20:22 … …
  • OpenESSENCE: Disease Surveillance through Medical Record System Integration with OpenMRS

    Content Type: Abstract

    OpenMRS has global presence as an open source web based medical record system (MRS). It is built on an extensible, modular framework that allows the user to create a MRS that is as simple or complex as needed. OE is a multi-user network accessible… read more
    … using features and lessons learned from Enterprise ESSENCE, (Electronic Surveillance System for Early … using features and lessons learned from Enterprise ESSENCE, (Electronic Surveillance System for Early …
  • Tick Bites - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Uploaded on behalf of Grace Marx, MD, MPH: Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, CDC.   This syndrome definition was created to explore tick through Syndromic data as an efficient approach to monitor the tick-borne… read more
    … seasonal peak in Lyme disease. This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) … seasonal peak in Lyme disease. This was created in NSSP ESSENCE, using the Chief Complaint Query Validation (CCQV) …
  • Language Barriers - CDC

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This syndrome is a work-in-progress and was created to experiment with Chief Complaint text indicating a language barrier between medical professionals and patient and/or an interpreter is needed to provide medical care. This was… read more
    … to provide medical care. This was developed on the NSSP ESSENCE CCQV data in the Processed Chief Complaint field. I … to provide medical care. This was developed on the NSSP ESSENCE CCQV data in the Processed Chief Complaint field. I …
  • 2021 Mortality Pilot Project Final Webinar

    Content Type: Meeting Recordings & Notes

    In 2021, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) and CDC’s NSSP partnered with the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS) and Ruvos on a project to route mortality data through… read more
    … Territorial Exchange of Vital Events (STEVE) into NSSP ESSENCE. This collaboration included the participation of … Level Public Author Syndromic @ CSTE Primary Topic Areas ESSENCE Tags Mortality Mortality Data Original Publication …
  • STL and Local Regression for Modeling Disease Surveillance Counts

    Content Type: Abstract

    Numerous methods have been applied to the problem of modeling temporal properties of disease surveillance data; the ESSENCE system contains a widely used approach (1). STL (2) is a flexible, wellproven method for temporal… read more
    … temporal properties of disease surveillance data; the ESSENCE system contains a widely used approach (1). STL (2) … temporal properties of dis- ease surveillance data; the ESSENCE system contains a widely used approach (1). STL (2) …
  • Enhancing Drug Overdose Alerts with Spatial Visualization

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since 2008, drug overdose deaths exceeded the number of motor vehicle traffic-related deaths in Indiana, and the gap continues to widen1. While federal funding opportunities are available for states, it often takes years for best practices to be… read more
    … Notification of Community-based Epidemics version 1.21 (ESSENCE) to monitor public health events and trends. In July … partners of increases in drug overdoses captured in ESSENCE at the county level. ISDH is enhancing these alerts …