📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Mar 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
📢 Onboarding and Production Vendor Patches 03/20/25 —
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BioSense Platform Monthly Patching Reminder:
• Vendor patches will be applied to the onboarding and production BioSense Platform environments.
• The Access & Management Center (AMC) will be updated to version 2.13 the Data Quality Dashboard (DQDB) will be updated to version 2.3.
• These ...
Rachel Berg • Feb 27, 2025 at 3:30 PM
2025 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Greetings,
CSTE is excited to see you shortly at Day 3 of the 2025 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium! As a reminder, we will start the day in this Zoom room at 12:30 pm ET for the Daily Open, Logistics, and Overview. You can find the full list of events available through the Confex platform.
I...
Rachel Berg • Feb 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Hello, Today is the start of the Syndromic Surveillance Symposium. The symposium will be virtual from 10:30 AM - 3PM AZ Time. Here is a link to the Symposium.
Here is the agenda at a glance. Hope everyone has a chance to attend!
[https://cste.confex.com/cste/f/2025SymposiumAgendaAtAGlance]
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Feb 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 ESSENCE CCDD Categories Processing —
ESSENCE CCDD Categories Processing:
The BioSense Platform is currently processing 22 new CCDD Categories. These new categories are processing through historical data and will not be fully ready for use until this historical processing is completed and cubes are rebuilt. Estimates show this will...
Rachel Berg • Jan 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
2025 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Registration —
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP), will VIRTUALLY convene the 2025 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium on February 25-27, 2025 from 12:30- 5pm ET.
T...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • Jan 13, 2025 at 9:58 PM
✅ Call for Presentations —
Hey all,
I wanted to reach out and ask if anyone has submitted to the Syndromic Surveillance Symposium or the CSTE Conference and would be interested in practicing their proposed presentations at the next Exploratory Analysis meeting.
Please feel free to email me at rachel.berg@azdhs.gov if yo...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Jan 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
📢 NSSP Introductory Webinar to Support Transition from SAS to R —
Good afternoon,
NSSP is offering an introductory webinar to support the transition of SAS code to R. This webinar will focus on addressing common surveillance functions, including pulling data through APIs, cleaning data, data visualization, and saving data. Examples of code in SAS and R will ...
Rachel Berg • Dec 06, 2024 at 9:51 PM
NSSP Community of Practice API Training - Pilot Testers Needed! —
Greetings!
We are seeking volunteers to pilot the early release of the NSSP CoP API training.
The Introduction to Application Programming Interfaces course intends to provide a clear, beginner-friendly introduction to Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Epidemiologists. This course ...
Rachel Berg • Nov 27, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Respiratory Dashboard Code and One-Pager —
To access the code, please visit dashboards.syndromicsurveillance.org. Login with your AMC/ESSENCE credentials then select the NSSP PRESS item from the list. Once you connect, please search for the “ARI Code Package,” and when you click the name or preview, a window will come up, and you can dow...
Rachel Berg • Nov 27, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Feb 25th-27th, 2025 —
CSTE is excited to begin planning for another exemplary Syndromic Surveillance Symposium! Please see details on the event and call for abstracts and volunteers below.
SAVE THE DATE – February 25-27, 2025
• Save the Date, February 25-27, 2025: The 5th Annual Syndromic Surveillance Symposium is ...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Sep 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
📢 MFT Tab Unavailable —
BioSense Platform MFT Tab Unavailable:
During patching on Thursday, September 19, 20224, an issue was discovered in the Master Facility Table (MFT) tab in the Access & Management Center (AMC). The MFT tab is temporarily unavailable.
We will implement a fix on Monday, September 23, 2024, starting ...
Rachel Berg • Aug 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM
NSSP CoP (NEW!) Syndromic Health data Access, Reporting, and Exchange (SHARE) Subcommittee Call —
Greetings,
The new NSSP CoP SHARE Subcommittee call will have its first call scheduled for September 3rd from 3pm-4pm EST.
The structure of this call will rotate every three months as follows:
Month 1 – Data Sharing Meeting for all NSSP CoP users and Program Partners
• Current and forthcomi...
Rachel Berg • Aug 08, 2024 at 4:37 PM
FREE Injury Prevention Mini Conference August 15th
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Greetings,
Save the date for a FREE virtual mini-conference on August 15 from 9am- 12 pm AZ time (12pm to 3 pm ET) featuring a deeper dive into new data and possibilities from ADHS’ work with CDC’s Advancing Violence Epidemiology in Real-Time (AVERT). AVERT uses ICD-10 codes and medical documen...
Rachel Berg • Aug 08, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Unscheduled Dataflow Interruption —
BioSense Platform Unscheduled Dataflow Interruption:
The BioSense Platform will undergo unscheduled maintenance to rebuild the ESSENCE data cubes for new Chief Complaint and Discharge Diagnosis (CCDD) categories, starting on Thursday, August 8, 2024, at 6:30 pm et. Dataflow will be paused during ...
📢 Updates to ESSENCE by
Rachel Berg • Jul 30, 2024 at 4:58 PM
📢 BioSense Platform - Digital Certificate Updates to be performed —
BioSense Platform: Applications and Tools will be Temporarily Unavailable
NSSP-hosted websites and applications will be temporarily unavailable today (July 30, 2024) because the digital certificates for the servers must be updated. This will require servers to be unavailable starting at 1:00 PM....
Rachel Berg • Jul 29, 2024 at 5:30 PM
SAVE THE DATE for a mini-conference on August 15th —
The ADHS Syndromic Surveillance Team invites you to join the mini IPAC (Injury Prevention Advisory Council) conference on August 15th. This virtual event is hosted by a collaborative group from the ADHS Office of Injury and Violence Prevention and the Arizona Governor’s Council on Spinal and Hea...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Jul 17, 2024 at 2:48 PM
📢 Updates to Data and Potential Downtime —
BioSense Platform Updates to Data and Potential Downtime:
The BioSense Platform will be updating historical data to redact personally identifiable information (PII) from the “Raw” table. We are assessing messages that need to be updated and have identified your site as containing data with PII. W...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • Jul 01, 2024 at 3:19 PM
✅ DOSE Syndromic Dashboard —
The DOSE team just launched a new dashboard that features 8 syndrome definitions, ( 4 new syndromes: fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and benzodiazepine; and 4 revised: all drugs, all opioids, heroin, and all stimulants) for DOSE data from January 2018-March 2024. Historic data on the original...
📢 Updates to ESSENCE by
Rachel Berg • Jun 24, 2024 at 2:42 PM
📢 ESSENCE ICD-10 and CCSR Update —
BioSense Platform ESSENCE ICD-10 and CCSR update:
The BioSense Platform will be updating the ICD-10 codes and the Clinical Classifications Software Refined (CCSR) in ESSENCE, starting on Thursday, June 27, 2024, starting at 10:00 am et. Dataflow will be paused during the update. Access to ESSENCE...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Jun 17, 2024 at 6:49 PM
📢 Monthly Patching Reminder —
BioSense Platform Monthly Patching Reminder:
• Vendor patches will be applied to the onboarding and production BioSense Platform environments.
• These servers will start going offline on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 12:00 am et.
• Servers will be restarted several times during the update window.
•...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • May 30, 2024 at 5:14 PM
📢 Untitled —
BioSense Platform ESSENCE Downtime:
The BioSense Platform will be upgrading the ESSENCE servers to Apache Tomcat 9 on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, starting at 11:00 am et. ESSENCE will be unavailable during the upgrade. We expect ESSENCE to be down for 30 minutes. All other services will be unaffected....
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Rachel Berg • May 20, 2024 at 3:21 PM
📢 ESSENCE Dataflow Backlog —
BioSense Platform Production Processing Backlog:
On Monday, May 20, 2024, the BioSense Platform IT team detected a processing issue that occurred during the weekend. The problem has been resolved, and data processing has resumed. However, the production system is currently addressing a backlog o...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • May 17, 2024 at 8:06 PM
📢 CDC NSSP Updated Website is Live —
The new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, CDC.gov, is live! Our NSSP web pages — from landing page through success stories — have a new look and streamlined content.
New features include:
• A clear path for those new to syndromic surveillance, as well as for those returning to...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • May 15, 2024 at 9:06 PM
✅ Query Display for Influenza —
Message for NSSP Slack: With the increased interest in Influenza and H5N1, Aaron Kite-Powell created a handy query display that I wanted to pass along to others. It's also a fantastic example of how ESSENCE can do some of the sorting/filtering in it's displays!
https://essence2.syndromicsurveilla...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • May 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
📢 R Upgrade for Posit Workbench —
R Language Upgrade for Posit Workbench:
We will be upgrading Posit Workbench with R language Version 4.4.0 starting Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 10:00 am et. These upgrades may require changes to Posit Workbench users’ R code and R packages. The new server will run in parallel to the current server ...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • May 09, 2024 at 3:50 PM
📢 Monthly Patching Reminder for May —
BioSense Platform Monthly Patching Reminder:
• Vendor patches will be applied to the onboarding and production BioSense Platform environments.
• These servers will start going offline on Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 12:00 am et.
• Servers will be restarted several times during the update window.
• ...
Alexis Griffin • Apr 17, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Results from the Data Dissemination Survey at the EA meeting —
Based on your responses from the data dissemination survey in the most recent EA meeting, you all ranked the data dissemination methods as follows:
1st Infographic
2nd Email Brief
3rd Exploratory Analysis Meeting
Thank you all for your participation and collaboration!
Rachel Berg • Apr 17, 2024 at 9:37 PM
Defining Disability for Syndromic Surveillance: Data to Action Webinar —
Defining Disability for Syndromic Surveillance: Data to ActionApril 29 - 30, 2024 | 4 – 5 p.m. ET | |
| | ASTHO will host a webinar and technical assistance office hour offering a unique perspective on defining disability. The discussions will show how this definition of disability can be u...
Rachel Berg • Apr 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Monthly Patching Reminder for April
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BioSense Platform Monthly Patching Reminder:
• Vendor patches will be applied to the onboarding and production BioSense Platform environments.
• These servers will start going offline on Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 12:00 am et.
• Servers will be restarted several times during the update window.
...
Rachel Berg • Mar 13, 2024 at 8:55 PM
2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Final Event Packet —
Good afternoon!
CSTE is excited to announce the session recordings and slides from the 2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium are now available! The 2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Final Event Packet includes track-specific content annotated with recordings and slides. The Symposium Final ...
Rachel Berg • Mar 12, 2024 at 2:25 PM
AMC and DQDB Application Updates —
BioSense Platform Application Update:
• The Access & Management Center (AMC) and the Data Quality (DQ) Dashboard will be updated to version 2.11.
• These servers will start going offline on Thursday, March 14, 2024, at 6:00 am et.
• Servers will be restarted several times during the update window...
Rachel Berg • Feb 21, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Unscheduled Dataflow Interruption —
BioSense Platform Unscheduled Dataflow Interruption:
The BioSense Platform will undergo unscheduled maintenance to rebuild the ESSENCE data cubes for new CCDD categories, starting on Wednesday, February 21, 2024, at 3:00 pm et. Dataflow will be paused during maintenance. Access to ESSENCE will be...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Feb 12, 2024 at 8:03 PM
📢 Unscheduled Dataflow Interruption (BioSense) —
BioSense Platform Unscheduled Dataflow Interruption:
The BioSense Platform will undergo unscheduled maintenance on ESSENCE dataflow, starting on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 3:00 pm et. Dataflow will be paused during the maintenance. Access to ESSENCE will be available, but data will be stati...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Feb 06, 2024 at 8:07 PM
📢 Dataflow Backlog (BioSense) —
BioSense Platform Production Processing Backlog:
On Monday, February 5, 2024, the BioSense Platform IT team detected a processing issue that occurred during the weekend. The problem has been resolved, and data processing resumed on the same day. However, the production system is currently addres...
📢 NSSP Announcement by
Rachel Berg • Feb 06, 2024 at 4:55 PM
📢 SAS Studio (AMC/BioSense) Downtime —
SAS Studio License Update and Downtime:
SAS Studio will be offline starting on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 9:00 pm et for the application of new licenses. Service should resume at 11:00 pm et.
Effect on Services:
§ SAS Studio
User-Required Actions:
§ Please save work in progress, stop ...
Rachel Berg • Jan 11, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Biosense Monthly Vendor Patches —
BioSense Platform Monthly Patching Reminder:
• Vendor patches will be applied to the onboarding and production BioSense Platform environments.
• These servers will start going offline on Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 12:00 am et.
• Servers will be restarted several times during the update window...
📢 Updates to ESSENCE by
Rachel Berg • Dec 21, 2023 at 3:02 PM
📢 Unscheduled Outage, Monthly Patching Closeout Delayed
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BioSense Platform Outage and Maintenance:
During patching, one of the database servers failed to restart properly in the production environment. Our systems engineers are working to resolve this issue. ESSENCE is currently available but is not returning data.
As part of the ongoing maintenance to...
📢 Updates to ESSENCE by
Rachel Berg • Dec 13, 2023 at 3:37 PM
📢 Unscheduled Interruption to Production Replication —
BioSense Platform Onboarding Replication:
An unexpected outage in production replication occurred on Wednesday, December 13, 2023. Data in ESSENCE are available, but data in DataMart and Data Quality Dashboard (DQDB) are not available.
Our team is investigating the source of the error. We do not ...
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Rachel Berg • Dec 11, 2023 at 6:08 PM
📢 ESSENCE Dataflow Backlog
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Message from NSSP:
BioSense Platform Production Processing Backlog:
• The BioSense platform production system is currently working through a data backlog due to a processing issue over the weekend. The BioSense platform IT team has resolved the issue, data processing has resumed, and the team w...
Rachel Berg • Dec 07, 2023 at 3:27 PM
Syndromic Surveillance Symposium: Day 3 —
Welcome to Day 3 of the Syndromic Surveillance Symposium! As a reminder, we will start the day in this Zoom room at 12:45 pm ET for the Daily Open, Logistics, and Overview. You can find the full list of events available through the Confex platform.
Please take a moment to review the following v...
Rachel Berg • Dec 06, 2023 at 3:31 PM
Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Day 2 —
Welcome to Day 2 of the Syndromic Surveillance Symposium! As a reminder, we will start the day in this Zoom room at 12:45 pm ET for the Daily Open, Logistics, and Overview. You can find the full list of events available through the Confex platform.
Please take a moment to review the following v...
Rachel Berg • Nov 29, 2023 at 9:43 PM
2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Good afternoon!
I am excited to announce that the online platform for the 2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium is now available! If you registered for the Symposium prior to 9:30am ET today you will have immediate access, if you registered after that time you will have access tomorrow. You can...
Rachel Berg • Oct 20, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Registration for Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
CSTE is excited to announce that registration for the 2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium is now open! This event is free and open to anyone interested in syndromic surveillance. It is a great opportunity to learn and connect with others while advancing the practice of syndromic surveillance (S...
Rachel Berg • Aug 30, 2023 at 9:59 PM
Public Presentation of Respiratory Viruses at State-Level —
The CDC is launching a new tool for the public presentation of NSSP data in support of national respiratory surveillance. The new tool will allow users to view data from
emergency department (ED) visits with COVID-19, influenza, and respiratory syncytial
virus (RSV) diagnoses at the state level d...
Rachel Berg • Aug 07, 2023 at 4:16 PM
NSSP Community of Practice New Member Orientation. —
The NSSP CoP is excited to invite you to attend our first quarterly NSSP CoP New Member Orientation! This orientation will provide an opportunity to meet CDC staff, CSTE staff, and CoP leadership and learn more about the CoP. Topics covered will include an overview of the NSSP CoP and its mission...
Rachel Berg • Jul 31, 2023 at 8:23 PM
2023 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Good afternoon!
CSTE is excited to begin planning for another exemplary Syndromic Surveillance Symposium! Please see details on the event and call for abstracts below.
SAVE THE DATE – DECEMBER 5-7, 2023
• Save the Date, December 5-7, 2023: The 4th Annual Syndromic Surveillance Symposium is sch...
Rachel Berg • Jun 28, 2023 at 5:21 PM
Xylazine —
Based on the last Exploratory Analysis meeting, I wanted to start a conversation about Xylazine and highlight some work that has been done by Mercedeh Reamer and Shayne Gallaway on creating a Xylazine syndrome definition. Please feel free to contribute your ideas and perspectives to help us furth...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • Jun 21, 2023 at 9:45 PM
✅ ACEs Dashboard —
The Dashboard Guide for the ACEs dashboard on the myESSENCE tab. The purpose of the ACEs dashboard is to visualize NSSP’s ACEs-related queries and potential outcomes in one location in a standardized, comparable way. By putting all ACEs-related queries in one location, NSSP users can quickly tog...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • Jun 21, 2023 at 9:41 PM
✅ CSTE Syndromic Surveillance Training —
The Introduction to Syndromic Surveillance Methodology Course provides new syndromic surveillance analysts and analyses consumers with foundational knowledge to interact with and use syndromic surveillance data. Over the course of three lessons, learners will explore common data sources and metho...
Rachel Berg • Mar 20, 2023 at 9:35 PM
NSSP Community of Practice —
On March 22nd at 9 AM, join the NSSP Community of Practice, I have provided a link below. This meeting will cover the new ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) dashboard that is available on myESSENCE page, as well as other important topics. If you are unable to attend, check the Knowledge Reposit...
Rachel Berg • Jan 26, 2023 at 4:41 PM
2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Recording Now Available —
Good morning!
CSTE is excited to announce the session recordings and slides from the 2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium are now available! The 2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Final Event Packet includes track-specific content annotated with recordings and slides, as well as submitted a...
Rachel Berg • Dec 20, 2022 at 10:23 PM
Abstracts for 2023 CSTE Conference —
Call for Abstracts for 2023 CSTE Annual Conference – Deadline is January 5th!
The Call for Abstracts for the 2023 CSTE Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah is open. The 2023 Annual Conference theme is “Epidemiology Elevated: Supporting People and Places”. The deadline for abstract submissi...
Rachel Berg • Nov 30, 2022 at 11:17 PM
R Training With Michael Sheppard —
On December 21st at 1 PM we will be having an Introduction to R training with Michael Sheppard from the CDC. If you would like to be a part of this meeting please email me at rachel.berg@azdhs.gov
Rachel Berg • Nov 30, 2022 at 11:18 PM
Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Is Almost Here! —
[2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Program Packet DRAFT.docx]CSTE is excited to welcome you to the 2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium on Tuesday, December 6 through Thursday, December 8. Each day will start at 12:30PM EST / 9:30AM PST in this Zoom room. The attached Program Packet lists al...
Rachel Berg • Nov 14, 2022 at 3:36 PM
NSSP Community of Practice and Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Hey Everyone,
Just wanted to remind you all that today is the last day to register for the Syndromic Surveillance Symposium happening on December 6-8th. Here is the registration. This event is virtual and free to attend.
November NSSP CoP Monthly Call - RESCHEDULED
The November 2022 NSSP CoP...
Rachel Berg • Oct 14, 2022 at 3:19 PM
2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
CSTE is excited to announce that registration for the 2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium is now open! This event is free and open to anyone interested in syndromic surveillance. It is a great opportunity to learn and connect with others while advancing the practice of syndromic surveillance (S...
Rachel Berg • Oct 07, 2022 at 2:51 PM
CSTE/NSSP Model Training Series - Syndromic Surveillance AnalySyS and Communication —
CSTE is facilitating the second of three virtual training events for new syndromic surveillance analysts and data consumers as part of the CSTE/NSSP Model Training Series. AnalySyS and Communication focuses on using syndromic surveillance analyses for public health action. Each training in the ...
Rachel Berg • Sep 02, 2022 at 7:56 PM
CSTE/NSSP Model Training Series: Syndromic Surveillance Stare of Mind. —
CSTE is excited to announce a new syndromic surveillance training opportunity designed for new syndromic surveillance data analysts and data consumers. Syndromic Surveillance State of Mind is the first training in a three-part, virtual CSTE/NSSP Model Training Series that focuses on foundation...
📈 myESSENCE by
Rachel Berg • Aug 29, 2022 at 5:25 PM
📈 Introduction to ESSENCE Training September 19-22 —
Hey Everyone,
Lakshmi Radhakrishnan and Aaron Kite-Powell from the CDC are hosting an Introduction to ESSENCE learning sessions from September 19-22. They held a similar series in July and it covered the basics of ESSENCE. This is a training series designed for new users or if you need to brush ...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
René Dario Herrera • Aug 19, 2022 at 5:20 PM
✅ Monkeypox query —
Has any jurisdiction developed a monkeypox query for ESSENCE?
Rachel Berg • Aug 18, 2022 at 9:01 PM
2022 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium Call for Abstracts and Volunteers —
Hello,
CSTE is excited to begin planning for another exemplary Syndromic Surveillance Symposium! There are multiple ways to get involved in this year’s Symposium – see details and important deadlines below.
SAVE THE DATE – DECEMBER 6-8, 2022
• Save the Date, December 6-8, 2022: The 3rd Annual...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • Jun 06, 2022 at 6:14 PM
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup Meeting —
I want to set up regular Exploratory Analysis Subgroup meetings. I would like to hear from everyone about what you would like to see from these meetings. I have included a link to a survey about how these meetings should be structured. I would appreciate everyone's feedback.
Thank you,
Rachel ...
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Cymone Gates • Mar 16, 2022 at 5:48 PM
📢 New Arizona Syndromic Surveillance Handbook! —
Good Morning SS Users,
The ADHS SS team is happy to announce that our new Arizona Syndromic Surveillance Handbook has been finalized! The handbook contains new and pre-existing ADHS Syndromic Surveillance guidelines along with many Syndromic Surveillance training resources and best practices. It...
René Dario Herrera • Mar 07, 2022 at 6:16 PM
Surveillance of suicide, intentional self-harm, and opioid overdose —
Hello, does anyone here have a workflow they use for surveillance of suicide, intentional self-harm, and opioid overdose? I'm new to using essence.
✅ Arizona BioSense Workgroup by
Rebekah Kamer • Mar 04, 2022 at 6:00 PM
✅ New to ESSENCE —
Hi everyone! My name is Rebekah Kamer and I am the School Health Epidemiologist at ADHS. I just received access to ESSENCE for the School Health Needs Assessment that I am conducting. I am the only data scientist on my team and am in need of support with ESSENCE. Are there any resources out there...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Joseph Spadafino • Feb 28, 2022 at 2:44 PM
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup Meeting 3/24 —
Hi all,
If you or any of your fellow BioSense /ESSENCE users have a project or topic you would like to present during the next Exploratory Analysis Subgroup meeting scheduled for March 24th, please let us know!
Best,
Joseph
Joseph Spadafino • Feb 02, 2022 at 6:22 PM
Feb 8th AZ Community of Practice Meeting Cancelled —
Hello,
The AZ CoP meeting on Tuesday Feb 8th is being cancelled. The program is moving towards hosting these meetings to a quarterly basis. We will send out a new meeting series once those are scheduled.
Thank you
Cesar • Jan 21, 2022 at 8:53 PM
Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup —
Hi all,
If you or any of your fellow BioSense /ESSENCE users have a project or topic you would like to present during our upcoming exploratory analysis subgroup meeting on Thursday next week, please let me know.
Thank You.
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Cymone Gates • Jan 21, 2022 at 4:38 PM
📢 Rolling Closures at Banner Health Urgent Cares —
This morning we received confirmation from Banner Health that "all of Banner Urgent Cares are having rolling closures to accommodate staff shortages." What this means for syndromic surveillance is that you may see several days of 0 visits in ESSENCE for certain Banner urgent care facilities. The ...
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Cymone Gates • Dec 27, 2021 at 4:18 PM
📢 Data Gap for Dignity Health Facilities —
Hi Everyone,
Dignity Health is experiencing a data delay and there are no visits in ESSENCE for the facility after December 23, 2021. They are aware of the issue and we are working on getting the data to the BioSense Platform as soon as possible.
Please reach out to our team at syndromicsurveil...
Cymone Gates • Dec 16, 2021 at 4:50 PM
Now Available: 2021 SS Symposium Recordings —
CSTE is excited to announce that the session recordings and slides from the 2021 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium are now publicly available! The 2021 Syndromic Surveillance Final Event Packet includes track-specific content annotated with recordings + slides and submitted abstracts. In addition ...
📈 myESSENCE by
Cymone Gates • Dec 14, 2021 at 4:56 PM
📈 New myESSENCE Dashboards —
Hi Everyone!
The ADHS SS Team has uploaded 5 myESSENCE dashboards (shown below) to the myESSENCE library so that all users can access them on their own. The dashboards will default to the geographic region the user has access to. Moving forward, we will upload any myESSENCE dashboards, created b...
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Cymone Gates • Nov 19, 2021 at 11:44 PM
📢 Data Delay for Dignity Health —
Hi Everyone,
Dignity Health is experiencing a data delay and there are no visits in ESSENCE for the facility after November 15th, 2021. They are aware of the issue and are working on getting the data to the BioSense Platform as soon as possible.
Please reach out to our team at syndromicsurveill...
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Cymone Gates • Nov 17, 2021 at 10:43 PM
📢 Data Delay for Tuba City Regional Health Care - Coconino County - Resolved —
Hi Everyone,
Tuba City Regional Health Care is experiencing a data delay and there are no visits in ESSENCE for the facility after November 6th, 2021. They are trying to resolve the issue with their EHR vendor.
Please reach out to our team at syndromicsurveillance@azdhs.gov if you have any ques...
Krystal Collier • Nov 13, 2021 at 12:36 AM
Feedback Wanted: Potential Syndromic Surveillance Data Sources —
Hi All,
In Slack today there was a post asking for feedback about different data sources to further the future of syndromic surveillance. If you have anything to share on this topic, please comment to this post.
As many of you know, CSTE, in collaboration with CDC NSSP, is working with Leslie ...
Cymone Gates • Nov 01, 2021 at 6:32 PM
Data Delay for Oro Valley Hospital, Western Arizona Regional Medical Center and Dignity Health Facilities - Resolved —
Hi Everyone,
Oro Valley Hospital and Western Arizona Regional Medical Center experienced a data delay over the weekend. The issue has been resolved by the EHR vendor, however, it may take 24-48 hours for the data to backfill and become viewable in ESSENCE.
Dignity Health facilities also experi...
📢 Updates to ESSENCE by
Krystal Collier • Oct 26, 2021 at 4:30 PM
📢 NSSP Data Corrections affect Two Syndromes —
Below there is an update that came out from NSSP about corrections to Two Syndromes. There will be an additional update on this during the NSSP CoP monthly call today at 12-1:30pm AZ time. Contact syndromicsurveillance@adhs.gov for any questions.
Subject: Correction Affects Two Syndrome
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Krystal Collier • Oct 06, 2021 at 12:06 AM
Save the Date + Updated Registration for the 2021 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Greetings,
Registration for the 2021 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium is NOW OPEN! Please see below for more information.
Mark Your Calendars
The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Sy...
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Cymone Gates • Oct 04, 2021 at 8:42 PM
📢 Data Delay for Tenet Healthcare - Abrazo & Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center - Resolved
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Hi Everyone,
Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center is experiencing a data delay from October 2 - October 4th. We are waiting to hear back from them to get the issue resolved.
Tenet Healthcare - Abrazo's (parent facility for Abrazo hospitals) data delay is from September 29th to today. They resol...
Krystal Collier • Oct 01, 2021 at 10:34 PM
Meeting Updates —
We will be cancelling the following calls and providing updates via Basecamp instead.
• 09/30/2021 Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup
• 10/05/2021 AZ BioSense Community of Practice
• 11/23/2021 Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup
Updates for 09/30/2...
📢 Facility Data Gaps or Delays by
Cymone Gates • Oct 01, 2021 at 3:21 PM
📢 Temporary Closure of Select Banner Health Urgent Cares (Maricopa County) —
Hi Everyone,
We received notice from Banner Health that four of their urgent care facilities are temporarily closed from 9/13/2021 - 10/11/2021. Thus, these facilities will not have visits in ESSENCE during the closure period.
1. Litchfield & Indian School | 3328 N Litchfield Rd, Goodyear, AZ 8...
Cymone Gates • Sep 02, 2021 at 8:34 PM
Data Delay for Dignity Health (Maricopa & Pinal Counties) - Resolved —
Hi Everyone,
Dignity Health is experiencing a submission delay for all of their facilities. At the moment, there are no Dignity visits in ESSENCE after 8/30/2021. They are working to resolve the issue and we expect to receive the data this evening. Please reach out to our team at syndromicsurvei...
Cymone Gates • Aug 30, 2021 at 4:59 PM
Data Delay for Northwest Medical Center (Pima County) - Resolved —
Hi Everyone,
Northwest Medical Center is experiencing a submission delay for their Northwest Medical Center and Northwest Emergency Center at Marana locations. We have not received data since Friday, August 27th and they are working to get the issue resolved ASAP. Please reach out to our team at...
Cymone Gates • Aug 17, 2021 at 10:58 PM
Data Delays in ESSENCE - Select Maricopa, Pinal and Mohave County Facilities —
Hi Everyone,
We wanted to let you know that a few facilities are experiencing delays getting visits into ESSENCE due to issues with their EHR systems. The facilities are working to get the issues resolved ASAP. These delays could impact your analysis of the data until the issues are resolved and...
Cymone Gates • Aug 13, 2021 at 6:51 PM
Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital (Maricopa County) in Production as of 8/13/2021 —
Hi Everyone,
We have a new facility in Maricopa County reporting to Production as of this morning, Abrazo Cave Creek Hospital.
It is a newly opened microhospital, which makes it Abrazo's third microhospital in addition to Abrazo Mesa Hospital and Abrazo Surprise Hospital. Since this is an add-...
Mark Person • Jul 09, 2021 at 5:08 PM
Public Health Decisions/Activities —
With a rise in heat related illness, the Community Mental Health and Addiction Unit Epis began looking deeper into the trends. With particular concern for individuals taking medications known to effect thermoregulation and increase risk of adverse health effects from extreme heat. We made a decis...
Krystal Collier • Jul 02, 2021 at 12:35 AM
Call for Abstracts for the 2021 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium —
Greetings,
To support the growing community of epidemiologists and public health professionals practicing syndromic surveillance, CSTE, in collaboration with the CDC’s NSSP, will support the 2nd Annual Syndromic Surveillance Symposium during the week of November 15th, 2021.
The 2021 Syndromic...
Yong Wang • Jun 23, 2021 at 11:22 PM
Banner Health Urgent Care Clinics (Gila, Maricopa, Navajo, Pima, Pinal) in Production as of 6/23/2021 —
Hi, everyone
Just want to let you a quick update on Banner Health urgent care clinics being added to ESSENCE production platform as of this morning.
There are currently 47 locations from 5 counties (Gila, Maricopa, Navajo, Pima, Pinal) reporting hourly into ESSENCE. Here is a break down of th...
Yong Wang • Jun 14, 2021 at 3:11 PM
Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center (Navajo County) In Production as of 6/14/2021 —
Good morning team,
This is to inform everyone that we have a new reporting facility from Navajo county added to the BioSense/ESSENCE as of this morning.
Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center started their hourly submission to BioSense production platform about two hours ago and we will be c...
Yong Wang • May 21, 2021 at 7:51 PM
Carondelet St. Raphael's Emergency Center (Pima County) In Production As of 5/21/2021 —
Hi, everyone
Just want to give you a quick update on a new site from Pima county went into production this morning.
Carondelet St. Raphael's Emergency Center, a newly opened freestanding emergency care clinics, had just completed their SS data validation process and got NSSP's approval to mov...
Yong Wang • May 12, 2021 at 4:34 PM
Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center (Gila County) In Production as of 5/10/2021 —
Hi, team
This is to inform everyone that we have a new reporting facility from Gila county added to the BioSense/ESSENCE.
Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center went live on 5/10 and we will be communicating more about this newly onboarded site at the go live call with all the stakeholders which ...
📢 Updates to ESSENCE by
Krystal Collier • Apr 12, 2021 at 3:42 PM
📢 ESSENCE2 Available to use —
Hi all,
We have some updates to share with you all. NSSP has been working on new developments to ESSENCE and one of those has been this upgraded version of the application called ESSENCE2. You as a user are now able to go into ESSENCE2 and take advantage of the many new options, especially whe...
📢 New Facilities in Production by
Krystal Collier • Mar 25, 2021 at 5:23 PM
📢 New Facilities in Production —
Starting this thread to add more timely updates of when facilities go into production.
Northwest Medical Center Sahuarita went into production on 03/24/2021.
Contact syndromicsurveillance@azdhs.gov for any questions.
Yong Wang • Mar 03, 2021 at 5:38 PM
Hospital Name Changes in ESSENCE —
Hi, team
FYI, the following hospital names have been updated in MFT and soon to be propagated into ESSENCE. The changes were made to ensure consistent naming convention for the hospitals under the same parent organization (Banner Health) and to remove some unwanted characters in their old names ...
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Yong Wang • Feb 09, 2021 at 9:21 PM
📢 Change of CLI Visit Alert Frequency from Hourly to Daily —
Hi, team
Unless I hear otherwise, I will be making another change today to adjust the ESSENCE CLI visit alert from hourly to daily in order to reduce the number of excessive alerts that may hinder your ability to spot other type of alerts that could be more critical to what you do at this time. ...
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Yong Wang • Feb 09, 2021 at 4:14 PM
📢 County Specific COVID VAE Alert and SS Resource Now Available —
Hi, team
As communicated in our last workgroup meeting, we are now making the daily COVID VAE alert that we have been pilot running internally for a while available for our county partners who are interested to subscribe them. Just like CLI alerts that some of you currently subscribed, there will...
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Krystal Collier • Feb 02, 2021 at 10:28 PM
📢 Making COVID Electronic Laboratory Reporting (CELR) summary data available to ESSENCE users on BioSense Platform —
Hi All,
We wanted to also follow up on this new update about COVID Electronic Laboratory Reporting summary data being made available in ESSENCE. We are seeking input about what considerations should be taken into account for data sharing access rules and users. ADHS will coordinate with NSSP o...
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Krystal Collier • Feb 02, 2021 at 10:11 PM
📢 AMC Data Access Remediation Plan —
Hi All,
We wanted to follow up on some of our discussion during the AZ BioSense Community of Practice call about data access rules and users and the recent update (2/1/2021) from NSSP about the AMC Data Access Remediation Plan. At this time no action is needed by users. If you do have question...
Krystal Collier • Feb 02, 2021 at 10:04 PM
RStudio Pro Upgrade on Wednesday night (2/3/2021@9m-11pm ET)
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Hi all,
A reminder that there is an R Studio maintenance on 2/3/2021@9pm-11pm ET. Please make sure you close out of any sessions and R Studio before the maintenance begins. For any errors, questions, or assistance, please contact our ADHS Syndromic Surveillance Program at syndromicsurveillance...
Krystal Collier • Jan 28, 2021 at 10:36 PM
CDC's Tick-borne Bite Dashboard Live —
Hi All!
I wanted to provide an update on new place you can find AZ data contributing to a CDC public facing dashboard. This new dashboard is looking at symptom based tick bite ED visits of interest in NSSP ESSENCE and provides regional visualization of the data in a map. The data is also avail...
Krystal Collier • Dec 18, 2020 at 10:27 PM
2020 CDC Releases New Vaccine-Associated Adverse Events ESSENCE Query —
Hi All,
On December 11, 2020, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for persons in the United States age 16 years and older. To ensure that the benefits outweigh the risks for persons who receive the vaccine, several vaccine safety moni...
Krystal Collier • Dec 09, 2020 at 12:14 AM
Data Delays in Mirth Processing and from Reporters Update 12-08-2020 —
Hi All,
We wanted to let you know that we have been observing some delays of data getting into ESSENCE due to issues with processing in MIRTH since last Thursday, 12/03/2020. We provided some of the background during today's AZ BioSense Workgroup meeting. We want to let you know that these del...
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Yong Wang • Dec 03, 2020 at 12:20 AM
📢 Updates on COVID Monthly Reports in MEDSIS Resource Area —
Hi, everyone
For those of you who have been granted access to your county's MEDSIS resource folder for the monthly SS report of CLI visits, here is a quick update on the reports posted in the area.
As of this afternoon, any newly updated monthly reports will be split into two smaller files wit...
✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Krystal Collier • Nov 24, 2020 at 6:56 PM
✅ November 2020 Updates —
In lieu of our Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup meeting for November we wanted to share a few updates.
Facilities moved to Production:
Wickenburg Community Hospital-11/04/2020
Mt. Graham Regional Medical Center-11/17/2020
Mayo Clinic Hospital-11/18/2020
New CCDD Catego...
Krystal Collier • Oct 07, 2020 at 8:47 PM
Save the Date + Registration: 2020 Syndromic Surveillance Symposium, Nov 17-19, 2020 —
Hi All,
CSTE has shared the Save the Dates for the virtual Syndromic Surveillance Symposium. All are welcome to attend. We are also in the process of looking for presenters for the symposium. Contact syndromicsurveillance@azdhs.gov if you are interested. Below is information to register for ...
Krystal Collier • Oct 07, 2020 at 8:41 PM
Poll: NSSP CoP Syndrome Definition Subcommittee Mental Health Syndrome —
Hi All,
The NSSP CoP Syndrome definition Subcommittee pushed out a poll today that I believe is of interest to many of you. If you would like to share you feedback with the NSSP CoP Syndrome Definition Subcommittee complete the poll question below.
Thank you to those who were able to join toda...
Krystal Collier • Sep 24, 2020 at 7:23 PM
Updates to ESSENCE Shortness of Breath Subsyndrome and Coronavirus-related CC and DD categories
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Additional Information about the updates to ESSENCE Shortness of Breath Subsyndrome and Coronavirus-related CC and DD categories.
Thanks,
Krystal[State of Arizona Mail - Updates to ESSENCE Shortness of Breath Subsyndrome and Coronavirus-related CC and DD categories.pdf]
📢 Data Sharing, Rules, Access by
Krystal Collier • Sep 19, 2020 at 12:53 AM
📢 AZ COVID-like Illness (CLI) EMS Regional Trends in NSSP ESSENCE —
What's New:
• Data Sharing Access Aggregate Rules User Groups• New Data sharing user groups and aggregate access rules for 4 AZ PHEP Regions.
• Each Region:• Has their own dashboard currently.
• Has access to their regional CLI and ILI trends for percent and count of visits• Note: there is a n...
Yong Wang • Aug 28, 2020 at 4:53 PM
Recent Updates Made in SS County Resource Files for COVID-19 in MEDSIS —
Hi, team
Just a quick update on a few new columns recently made available in the SS county resource files in MEDSIS in assisting in your COVID-19 investigation efforts.
Some of these might have been communicated at our last meeting but I would like to list them in here again in case you missed i...
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✅ Exploratory Analysis Subgroup/AZ BioSense Opioid Workgroup by
Rachel Berg • Aug 26, 2022 at 8:45 PM
✅ CSTE/NSSP SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE MODEL TRAINING SERIES —
CSTE/NSSP SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE MODEL TRAINING SERIES – TRAINING OF THE TRAINER EXERCISE
As part of the CSTE/NSSP Syndromic Surveillance Model Training Series, select STLT CoP members are invited to participate in a unique (and fun!) training exercise, Training of the Trainer, where you will act...
