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21st Century Health Care Demands New Models for Population Health Data Aggregation and Sharing: A Federated Approach
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This paper describes the value of a distributed approach to population health efforts that span clinical research, quality measurement and public health. The goal of the paper is to challenge the traditional paradigm which relies on centralized data… read more -
A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters
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Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. -
Algorithms to Characterize Syndromic Surveillance Spatial Alerts
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This paper explores some visualization methods for characterizing spatial signals detected by SaTScan and discusses how these maps might aid in deciding whether to investigate a signal, as well as the scope and focus of the investigation. -
Automated Creation of High-Quality Maps Using SAS and Python
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New York City ED syndromic surveillance data uses SaTScan to detect spatial signals. SaTScan analysis has been integrated into SAS since 2002, and signal maps have been generated from SAS since 2003. Signal maps are created occasionally to… read more -
Can Internet Searches Provide Useful Data For Public Health Surveillance?
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Internet-based technologies have been used to assist in disease surveillance and reporting. The Public Health Agency of Canada operates the Global Public Health Information Network, credited with early notification of many outbreaks (… read more -
Cluster Detection Incorporating Lagged Test Data
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Using New York CityÃs dead bird surveillance for West Nile Virus (WNV), this paper presents two explorations of the spatial cluster detection problem in which lagged test results are available for a random subset of observations. First, we… read more -
Comparison of Ambulatory Electronic Health Record and Emergency Department Visit Log Data for Respiratory, Fever, and GI Syndromes
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This paper describes three years of electronic health record (EHR) data from a network of urban ambulatory care clinics in New York City. -
Could Outpatient Visits Enhance Our Ability of Early Detecting Influenza-Like Illness Outbreaks?
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This paper describes HHC outpatient data and evaluates the performance for early influenza-like illness (ILI) outbreak detection. We compare its detection ability to that of the emergency department (ED) data and of the two data sources… read more