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Notes on MU Stage 3 NPRM Informatics
Content Type: Report
Notes on Meaningful Use stage 3 Notice of Public Rule Making, provided by Bryant Thomas Karras… a pre-requisite for the following stage until 2017. They may enroll at any time during the timeframe for that stage. … of changes to reduce complexity and simplify MU criteria and requirements o Proposing single set … -
Using Health Information Exchange to Improve Use of Prescription Monitoring Data
Content Type: Abstract
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 … -
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… County. The HIE hospitalization and laboratory data may be a valuable replacement for mandatory notifiable … County. The HIE hospitalization and laboratory data may be a valuable replacement for mandatory notifiable … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
Electronic case reporting of STIs: Are non-existent codes the reason for missing information?
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Under the CDC STD Surveillance Network (SSuN) Part B grant, WA DOH is testing eICR of sexually transmitted infections (STI) with a clinical partner. Existing standard vocabulary codes were identified to represent previously-identified information… read more… questions into EHR or other data collection systems and may allow creation of standard Clinical Data Architecture … questions into EHR or other data collection systems and may allow creation of standard Clinical Data Architecture … -
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
Content Type: Abstract
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 … speed of the two systems using both a typical day (about 70 records) and a typical month (about 2000 records). … The UW’s Perl-based system successfully Hospital Visits Per Day in 30-Day Period coded 63 out of 76 records …