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  • Syndrome Definition Development Toolkit

    Content Type: Surveillance Tools and Systems

    PurposeThe purpose of this document is to standardize and formalize the process for adding new and updating existing syndrome definitions (CCDD Categories) in the NSSP-ESSENCE instance of the BioSense platform. While jurisdictions… read more
    … syndrome definitions (CCDD Categories) in the NSSP-ESSENCE instance of the BioSense platform. While … jurisdictions that maintain their own local versions of ESSENCE do not need to follow this process, this can still … definitions even if you do not intend to add them to ESSENCE. 1.    Research and Requirements Gathering  …
  • Transitioning to ICD-10 CM: What is the impact for Public Health Surveillance?

    Content Type: Webinar

    Peter Hicks, an epidemiologist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will present an expanded version of the 2013 ISDS Pre-Conference Workshop on the ICD-9/10 CM Transition and the impact upon Public Health. His presentation will… read more
    … d. Access impact on statistical methods / tools (CUSUM, ESSENCE, etc.) e. Review and test Sensitivity, Specificity … • Revise Analytic Methods unknown • Evaluate / Test • Training – Community Engagement System Zeta ICD-9/10 …
  • Increasing the Return-on-Investment from Syndromic Surveillance: Putting the Systems to Work for Routine Local Health Department Activities

    Content Type: Abstract

    Since October 2004, the Indiana State Health Department and the Marion County Health Department have been developing and using a syndromic surveillance system based on emergency department admission data. The system … read more
    … The MCHD monitors the ED data using two methods: 1) the ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early … with chief complaints that would not trigger an alert in ESSENCE, the MCHD also uses user-defined queries in ESSENCE …
  • One Health Concept: Building educational and translation research capacity of graduate and post-graduate students in India

    Content Type: Case Study

    Food safety is a global issue with diverse challenges along various critical points in the food production chain. In India, food safety programs including establishment of surveillance programs and quantitative approaches through integration of… read more
    … in place to ensure this and hence it became critical to train, assess and certify a set of workforce dedicated for … students in India PROJECT/ACTIVITY TITLE Developing Training Curriculum on One Food Safety for Food handlers and … inspection, auditing and sampling was lacking for want of training, resources and infrastructure. Lack of …
  • Early Identification of Salmonella Cases Using Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    On June 7, 2008, federal food protection and public health agencies alerted consumers of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul infections. As of June 30, 2008, 851 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE). In Maryland, 30% of acute care hospitals in the … Metro and National Capital Regions, send ED data to ESSENCE. Although syndromic surveillance is not generally …
  • Planning for the ICD-10 Transition

    Content Type: Webinar

    The transition of all HIPAA covered entities from the use of ICD­9­CM to ICD­10­CM/PCS codes on October 1, 2015 will create a paradigm change in the use of electronic health record (EHR) data. Many public health surveillance entities that receive,… read more
    … jurisdictions’ systems, alter business processes, and train workforce personnel in the use of ICD-10 CM codes for …   "   Project  Plan   "   Implementa:on  Plan   "   Training  Plan   "   Issue  Log/Risk  Matrix   NC’s …   "   Development  of  implementa:on  tools  and  training   for  local  agencies   "   Business  Impact …
  • Application and Visualization of Twitter Data for Disease Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    The panelists will present their current technical research using Twitter data for disease surveillance. Presentation topics may include filtering and processing of tweets, as well as the analysis and presentation of findings for surveillance… read more
    … Society for Disease Surveillance #tweet4ds The  essence  of  the  New  Biology  is  re-­‐integra5on  of   … and negative examples of Tweets have been labelled in a training set. This training set then used to construct the …
  • Use of Informatics for Understanding Disease Activity in Community

    Content Type: Abstract

    Centre for Health Protection (CHP) plans to conduct a pilot project in developing a syndromic surveillance system using data from Emergency Departments (ED) in Hong Kong. This is part of the Communicable Disease Information System initiative, which… read more
    … are re- grouped into 10 syndrome groups according to the ESSENCE (1) for subsequent calculation of syn- drome … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp …