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  • Storms - Kansas Department of Health and Environment

    Content Type: Syndrome

    This is a cluster of syndromes created to populate an extreme weather myESSENCE tab. The intent was to increase repeatability of our weather surveillance and have something where a user can use the "Change Region" option to select whatever county,… read more
    … a major work-in progress. All of this as done in NSSP ESSENCE on Emergency Room data. Fields are specified by each … a major work-in progress. All of this as done in NSSP ESSENCE on Emergency Room data. Fields are specified by each …
  • Communities of Practice: Advancing the Practice of Surveillance

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    These slides were presented as a 60 minute oral presentation at the 2018 Public Health Informatics Conference in Atlanta Georgia. Learning Objective To share our experiences at ISDS with setting up and managing communities of… read more
    … Goals” 1 min Cat 6 VISION Increased availability of SyS training, learning and knowledge-sharing events for SyS … to support the two user groups we have: the R Group and ESSENCE User Group. This first version of the graphic was …
  • Lessons Learned from a National Capitol Region Syndromic Surveillance Tabletop Exercise, Spring 2005

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes lessons learned from a regional tabletop exercise (TTX) of the National Capital Region (NCR) Syndromic Surveillance Network, from the perspective of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH).
    … potential public health emergencies. Figure 1 – Map of ESSENCE NCR surveillance area. METHODS The NCR TTX simulated … cross-jurisdictional alerting protocol; more extensive training of those who monitor ESSENCE, such as alerting to “unusual” clinical cases; …
  • Data Sharing Through Dashboards: The Who, What, Where, When, and Why

    Content Type: Webinar

    Presented April 26, 2019. Description: Join us for this lightning talk webinar experience where you will see multiple examples of data dashboards and learn more about who they were created for, how… read more
    … the National Capital Region for 5 years as the lead for ESSENCE program at the Maryland Department of Health and … the National Capital Region for 5 years as the lead for ESSENCE program at the Maryland Department of Health and …
  • CDC Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect v1

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Why the syndrome was created: The purpose of the suspected child abuse and neglect (sCAN) syndromic surveillance query is to monitor trends in childhood abuse and neglect in emergency departments and… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as a Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis (CC … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE) as a Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis (CC …
  • Using Syndromic Data to Examine Flooding

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Wisconsin experienced severe flooding from August 17 to September 20, 2018. This flood caused an estimated $232 million in damage and affected 21 counties. Floods can have negative health impacts on a population, such as increased skin infections,… read more
    … used the Early Notification of Community based Epidemics (ESSENCE), a tool within BioSense, to track flood-related … data to apply for the Crisis Counseling Assistance and Training Program (CCP) grant with the Substance Abuse and …
  • Surveillance of Heat-Related Illness Among Pinal County Residents in Arizona

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Extreme heat events caused by high environmental temperatures are considered a major cause of weather-related deaths and injury in the United States. These events can result in a spectrum of conditions known as heat-related illnesses (HRIs), which… read more
    … using a combination of hospital discharge data (HDD), the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance tool within the BioSense … incidents among Pinal County residents. Data from HDD, ESSENCE, and the interviews analyzed in 2017 helped support … information obtained from hospital discharge data and ESSENCE. Combining hospital discharge data, syndromic …
  • Disease Profile Development Methodology for Syndromic Surveillance of Biological Threat Agents

    Content Type: Abstract

    Detection of biological threat agents (BTAs) is critical to the rapid initiation of treatment, infection control measures, and public health emergency response plans. Due to the rarity of BTAs, standard methodology for developing syndrome… read more
    … a common informatics lexicon and workforce engagement and training are critical to public health, especially for … 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 …