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  • Rough Guide to Set up Data Feed for Poison Center Data in Your State

    Content Type: References

    The Oregon ESSENCE team has developed a guide for other states to use to set up a web service link to their poison center and extract its data into ESSENCE. It contains advice based on Oregon’s experience in developing its link with its poison… read more
    … Values of Rhapsody variables to reflect your system a. Email_host – your email server. Used to send email if NPDS WS doesn’t connect …
  • Absenteeism Among Employees in a Southeastern Ontario Hospital: A Novel Application of Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Abstract

    Sickness absence is particularly pronounced within health care organizations where job demands and work environment expose workers to an increased risk of illness and injury, potentially leading to an inability to attend work.… read more
    … Objective 1) To identify and describe Occupational Health visits (overall and specific conditions) among full-time … 1) To identify and describe Occupational Health (OH) visits (overall and specific conditions) among full-time … the databases. The conditions/ syndromes within the OH visit data are pre- determined by the system, and classified …
  • ESSENCE Version 2.0: The Department of Defense's Worldwide Syndromic Surveillance System Receives Several Enhancements

    Content Type: Abstract

    ESSENCE receives and analyzes data for the Military Health System’s (MHS) 9 million beneficiaries resulting in approximately 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released … read more
    … 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide. In May 2008, MHS released ESSENCE Version … 90,000 daily outpatient and emergency department visits worldwide [1]. In May 2008, MHS released ESSENCE … laboratory results, disposition codes, reason for visit/chief complaints, vital sign data, and additional …
  • Clinical Versus Public Health Perceptions of Notifiable Disease Reporting Burden

    Content Type: Abstract

    The importance transmitting clinical information to public health for disease surveillance is well-documented. Conventional reporting processes require health care providers to complete paper-based notifiable condition reports which are transmitted… read more
    … condition reports which are transmitted by fax and mail to public health agencies. These processes result in … condition reports which are transmitted by fax and mail to public health agencies. These processes result in …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

    Content Type: Abstract

    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … USA; and 7McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada E-mail: drolson@gmail.com Objective To describe the initial phase of the … Selected Distribute health department sites were sent an email inviting them to participate in the pilot. Sites were …
  • Operational Considerations and Early Successes with a Statewide Public Health Surveillance System

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) partnered with the Regenstrief Institute to begin collecting syndromic data from 14 ED’s to monitor bioterrorism-related events and other public health emergencies. Today, Indiana’s public… read more
    … system (PHESS) receives approximately 5,000 daily ED visits as real-time HL7 formatted surveillance data from 55 … Indiana’s PHESS receives approximately 5,000 daily ED visits as real-time HL7 formatted surveillance data from 55 … deadly tornado struck southern Indiana in 2005. As the ED visit volumes climbed, no false alerts were triggered for …
  • Making the Best Use of Textual ED Data for Syndromic Surveillance

    Content Type: Webinar

    In this webinar Dr. Travers will review two tools developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which aid in processing textual CC’s and triage notes in support of syndromic surveillance. Textual data from emergency departments… read more
    … can still be problematic. Chief complaints from ED visits are a common data source for syndromic surveillance, … Chief Complaints •Challenges •Tool developed at UNC A Visit to the ED Chief Complaints- Influenza Chief Complaint: … Developed*& Validated# • Sublanguage analysis, 39,038 ED visits • Validated on 203,509 ED visits • Expert panel …
  • Using a real time syndromic surveillance system to track heat related illnesses during a heat wave

    Content Type: Abstract

    In 2004, the Marion County Public Health Department (MCPHD), which serves a county population over 890,000, began using a real time syndromic surveillance system, ESSENCE (Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based… read more
    … disease outbreaks. Today, about 1600 emergency department visits occur daily in Marion County's 14 emergency … disease outbreaks. Today, about 1600 emergency department visits occur daily in Marion County’s 14 emergency … the Emergency Operations Center three times a day via e-mail. The query used the following terms: ‘ˆheatˆ, or, …