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Kansas Uses a Novel Approach to Assess Injuries to Agricultural Workers
Content Type: Success Stories
Agriculture can be a hazardous industry. Farmers, and oftentimes their family members, are at high risk for injuries, fatalities, and illness. Risks include exposure to pesticides on crop farms and use of tractors, farming equipment, and other… read more… the extent of agriculture injuries, KDHE opted to use ESSENCE. The ESSENCE syndromic surveillance (SyS) software … collects prediagnostic data almost in real time. With ESSENCE, once a query has been written, sharing it is easy. … -
Obtainable and Sustainable: Open Source Solutions for the Future of Public Health
Content Type: Webinar
Public health can harness the power of increasingly available health population data to improve practice and effectively allocate resources to areas of need. The driving forces of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Meaningful Use are changing… read more… return comes from additional implementation services, training and software update maintenance 3 Open Source v. … Source for Public Health SAGES: an Open Source version of ESSENCE helps countries globally track disease Johns Hopkins … -
CDC Youth Violence v1
Content Type: Syndrome
Query purpose: Youth violence is the intentional use of physical force or power to… read more… to capture these types of violence can be found in ESSENCE). The goal of this syndrome definition is to assist … diagnoses, several states used supplementary fields in ESSENCE, such as triage notes or clinical impressions, to … -
Electronic Surveillance for Injury Prevention Using a Physician-Operated System
Content Type: Abstract
When hazardous materials or products emerge in the market, injury prevention researchers take action to promote awareness and legislation with the goal to prevent further injuries. This cannot be achieved without reliable data on trends and outcomes… read more… code based systems. We use these cases to form powerful training and validation sets for a bag of words classifier. We train the classifier and assess its performance on the … Endie Waziri2 and Adebola T. Olayinka1 Integrating R into ESSENCE to Enable Custom Data Analysis and Visualization … -
Analytic Methodologies for Disease Surveillance Using Multiple Sources of Evidence
Content Type: Webinar
This presentation is for public health practitioners and methodology developers interested in using statistical methods to combine evidence from multiple data sources for increased sensitivity to disease outbreaks. Methods described will account for… read more… [DHSS ESSENCE] … subset removed • Other 9 subsets pooled for training • Op4mal combina4on of thresholds found … -
ICD-10-CM Conversion
Content Type: References
Curated list of documents supporting the transition from ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM/PCS. For more information about the project, visit the project description page on… read more… to October 2015 provides an opportunity for additional training and improving clinical documentation integrity. 2 … in pregnancy, episodes of care, and much more. • Code Training: Codes increase from 17,000 to 140,000. Physicians … the implementation of ICD-10 including budgets, staff training, vendor communication and policy and document … -
Another Type of Cluster Monitoring: Detection of Groups of Anomalous Patient Residence Locations
Content Type: Abstract
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) uses the Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics to detect disease outbreaks and other health-related events earlier than other forms of surveillance. Although… read more… for the Early Notification of Community- based Epidemics (ESSENCE) to detect disease outbreaks and other … Health Care System*Baltimore Medical Center. Using ESSENCE, daily counts of ICD-9 codes related to influenza … -
Syndromic Surveillance Climate and Health Guidance Document
Content Type: Report
In general, data from public health surveillance can be used for short- and long-term planning and response through retrospective data analysis of trends over time or specific events. Combining health outcome data (e.g., hospitalizations or deaths)… read more… for the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics (ESSENCE) within the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)1, local installations of ESSENCE, commercial syndromic surveillance systems such as … Control and Prevention (CDC). NSSP ESSENCE In-person training workshop. 2016. Accessed July 31, 2017: …