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Natural Language Processing and Technical Challenges of Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance
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Processing free-text clinical information in an electronic medical record (EMR) may enhance surveillance systems for early identification of ILI outbreaks. However, processing clinical text using NLP poses a challenge in preserving the semantics of… read more -
The Impact of Weather on Influenza-like Illness Rates in Chicago
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Weather events such as a heat wave or a cold snap can cause a change to the number of patients and types of symptoms seen at a healthcare facility. Understanding the impact of weather patterns on ILI surveillance may be useful for early detection… read more