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  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 2): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Department of Veterans Affairs Implementation

    Content Type: Webinar

    This webinar is part of the Meaningful Use Webinar Series entitled "Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance: A Meaningful Use Dialogue" Dr. Cynthia Lucero continues our Meaningful Use webinar series with an introduction to… read more
    … System (HAIISS)  Includes two software applications: ESSENCE biosurveillance system and QC Pathfinder … 5 Syndromic Surveillance in VHA First version of VA ESSENCE launched in 2005 but not widely used OPHSR became …
  • Defining Clinical Condition Categories for Biosurveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    The goal of this project is to create a set of clinical condition categories based on explicit criteria for use in biosurveillance programs. The categories will be defined and keywords and ICD-9-CM diagnosis codes for implementation will be proposed.
    … categories (called “sub- syndromes” in the BioSense and ESSENCE programs) for analysis of electronic health data in … Harmonizing clinical condition categories in BioSense and ESSENCE will allow more consistency in interpretation of …
  • Combining Laboratory Test Orders and Outpatient Visits to Monitor Respiratory Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    To evaluate whether joint monitoring of laboratory test orders and outpatient visits improves the sensitivity and timeliness of alerting during seasonal increases in respiratory illness.
    … in- creases in respiratory illness. BACKGROUND The ESSENCE surveillance system in use by the Department of … tivities/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp>. Microbiology laboratory tests assigned …
  • CDC Suicide Attempt v2

    Content Type: Syndrome

    Definition Purpose: To assist state, local, tribal, territorial, and federal public health practitioners in identifying emergency department (ED) visits for suspected suicide attempts. The definition can be used to supplement case-finding using… read more
    … Revision of CDC Suicide Attempt v1   Date Added to ESSENCE: December 7, 2022   Justification for New Version: … the Early Notification of Community-Based Epidemics, or ESSENCE, manually reviewing the visits that were pulled, …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Analysis & Interpretation

    Content Type: Presentation Slides

    Presented January 31, 2018   David Swenson presented the following slides during the 2018 ISDS Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida. This presentation provides a use case for developing and implementing surveillance prodocols to conduct… read more
    … surveillance systems. MMWR 2005;54(Suppl);141–6. 2ESSENCE User Guide [Internet]. Version 1.0. Florida … ment/disease-reporting-and-surveillance/_documents/florida-essence-user-guide.pdf 3 International Society for Disease …
  • West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources Syndromic Surveillance for Mass Gatherings

    Content Type: Success Stories

    Mass gatherings—defined as events attended by a sufficient number of people to strain the planning and response resources of the host state—pose unique surveillance challenges. Attendees can be at greater (or high) risk for injuries due to… read more
    … care facility. An off-site surveillance team used NSSP–ESSENCE* to provide daily situational awareness reports to … discharged, and expired). Enhanced surveillance using ESSENCE enabled public health officials to conduct near …
  • Exploring Syndrome Definition by Applying Clustering Methods to Electronic Health Records Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Electronic  Health  Record  (EHR)  data  offers  the  researcher a potentially rich source of data for tracking disease  syndromes. Procedures  performed  on  the  patient, medications… read more
    … the Early Notification of Community-based Epidem- ics (ESSENCE) were included in the analyses. All ESSENCE ICD9-CM … http://www.geis.fhp.osd.mil/GEIS/SurveillanceActivi ties/ESSENCE/ESSENCE.asp#ICD9 . Binary indi- cator variables were …
  • Maximum Entropy Models in Chief Complaint Classification

    Content Type: Abstract

    This paper describes a novel approach to the statistical classification of free-text chief complaints for the purpose of syndromic surveillance.
    … hand-classified into one of eight categories was used to train both CoCo and the new Maximum Entropy classifier. A … low and highly variable due to the low availability of training data. Epidemiological and clinical assessment from … by CoCo because the word had not been observed in the training set. CONCLUSIONS Maximum Entropy classification …