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  • Enhanced Surveillance for Aedes Mosquitoes in the Arizona Border Region

    Content Type: Case Study

    In 2014, a dengue outbreak affected northern Mexico and travel-associated dengue cases increased in southern Arizona. While Arizona has not detected a local dengue case, local transmission occurred in Nogales, Sonora, sister city of Nogales, Arizona… read more
    … __X_ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration _X__ Training and Resources __X_ Technologies and Methodologies … ages and educational levels. By offering educational training sessions, we raised interest in the project and …
  • A Framework for Evaluating Temporal Alerting Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance Systems

    Content Type: Abstract

    This abstract describes a suite of software utilities that have been developed for systematically evaluating the detection performance and robustness of univariate temporal alerting algorithms used in syndromic surveillance systems.
    … terms of both detection performance and ro- bustness, the ESSENCE Univariate Alerting Algorithm Test Framework … performance of the principal alert- ing algorithm used in ESSENCE to the performance of the EARS C1, C2, and C3 …
  • Enhanced Public Health Surveillance Activities in Miami-Dade County for Super Bowl XLI

    Content Type: Abstract

    A large event such as the Super Bowl that attracts over 120,000 visitors to an area within a short period of time has the potential to increase the risk of communicable diseases and environmental hazards in a community in… read more
    … for the Early Notification of Community Based Epidemics (ESSENCE), the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue 911 Call Center data … the average of 2,315 for the first two months of 2007. ESSENCE detected a significant increase of cases with …
  • Text-Processing of VA Clinical Notes to Improve Case Detection Models for Influenza-like Illness

    Content Type: Abstract

    Objective There were two objectives of this analysis. First, apply text-processing methods to free-text clinician notes extracted from the VA electronic medical record for automated detection of Influenza-Like-Illness. Secondly,… read more
    … the text-processing techniques alone and with addition of ESSENCE based ICD9 codes (VAMHCS 197) and clinical data … (91%,91%,16%). Combining text-processing methods with ESSENCE based ICD-9 codes or adding expectorant orders …
  • Promoting the One Health Approach to prevent wildlife-borne zoonotic diseases in Bolivia – Yellow fever outbreak case study

    Content Type: Case Study

    Immediate detection and response to zoonotic disease outbreaks in animals are valuable strategies to prevent infections in humans. Detection and early warning of wildlife-borne pathogens are often limited by the lack of sensitized observers,… read more
    … _x__ Cross-Agency Communication and Collaboration __x_ Training and Resources ___ Technologies and Methodologies … PREDICT team in Bolivia. Thus, increasing awareness and training veterinarians, biologist, rangers and local …
  • Discovering the New Frontier of Syndromic Surveillance (Pt 1): A Meaningful Use Dialogue on the Nebraska and Washington Implementations

    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" Our third Meaningful Use webinar continues our discussion on state implementation of inpatient… read more
    … ○  Test messages received from 14 facilities (3 new) �  ESSENCE system hosted by DOH Syndromic Surveillance … transport SFT (8 feeds) PHINMS (1 feed) Data elements ESSENCE only ESSENCE + *ADT^A01^ADT_A01, ADT^A03^ADT_A03, …
  • Use of Syndromic Surveillance in the Investigation of Salmonella Wandsworth Outbreak

    Content Type: Abstract

    On June 22, 2007 increases in over-the-counter (OTC) electrolyte and child anti-fever medication sales were detected through routine OTC surveillance. Increases in emergency department (ED) data for gastrointestinal (GI) illness among… read more
    … Early notification of the EDs could also aide in ob- taining clinical specimens as new potential cases pre- sent … from EDs need to be developed, either through staff training or remote access by DOHMH. References: [1] Balter …
  • Could Syndromic Surveillance Data be Used Effectively with Other Data Sources? A Transposable Local View

    Content Type: Abstract

    This panel member consultation is an International Society of Disease Surveillance (ISDS) sponsored project. It involved expert personnel in their respective area to address specific, priority questions confronting researchers, developers, and… read more
    … with the “core” syndromic surveillance system (i.e. Essence, BioSense, etc.), and applying/analyzing several …