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Using Health Information Exchange to Improve Use of Prescription Monitoring Data
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Washington State experienced a five-fold increase in deaths from unintentional drug overdoses between 1998 and 2014. The PMP collects data on controlled substances prescribed to patients and makes the data available to healthcare providers, giving… read more… emergency departments statewide to track patients who visit multiple EDs. We also developed a connection between … emergency departments statewide to track patients who visit multiple EDs. We also developed a connection between … -
Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo
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The University of Washington has been working since 2000 with partners in Washington State to advance bioterrorism (BT) detection and preparedness. This project collects data on patients presenting with influenza-like … read more… (SSIC) Peninsula system has collected 58,542 hospital visits of interest (potentially of infectious nature), and a baseline of 123,285 (total visits) records total. Of these visits of interest, 28,624 (57%) were successfully geocoded. … -
Comparison of Automated Geocoding Methods in a Distributed Multi-County Disease Surveillance System
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The University of Washington's Center for Public Health Informatics, in collaboration with the Kitsap County Health District and the UW Clinical Informatics Research Group, has developed the Peninsula Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection… read more… c Kitsap County Health District, Bremerton, WA. Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period ABSTRACT This paper … The UW’s Perl-based system successfully Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period coded 63 out of 76 records … -
Surveillance of Laboratory-confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Health Information Exchange
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During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations reportable. Reporting of influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals and local… read more… Health Services for their contributions. *Natasha Close E-mail: natasha.close@doh.wa.gov (page number not for citation …