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  • Telephone Triage Data for Detection of Influenza-like Illness

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    National surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus variants and to monitor influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to… read more
    … and mortality. Nurse telephone triage (“call”) data may serve as a useful complement to traditional influenza … on number of influenza isolates and percentage of total visits to sentinel providers for influenza-like illness were … [2] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit and nurse advice hotline data for syndromic …
  • Nurse Call Data for Detection of Influenza-Like Illness

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    Influenza affects millions of people and causes about 36,000 deaths in the United States each winter. Pandemics of influenza emerge at irregular intervals. National influenza surveillance is used to detect the emergence and spread of influenza virus… read more
    … such data for influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance may lead to earlier detection of ILI in the community, both … data on number of influenza isolates and percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to rolling, seven-day totals of calls for ILI and …
  • Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP): Automated Detection and Reporting of Statutory Notifiable Diseases to Public Health Authorities

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    Clinician initiated reporting of notifiable conditions is often delayed, incomplete, and lacking in detail. We report on the deployment of Electronic medical record Support for Public health (ESP), a system we have created to automatically screen… read more
    … Lyme disease, for example, can be diagnosed from the com- bination of 1) an ICD9 code 088.81 (erythema chronicum … 1999;282: 1845–50. 3. Panackal AA, M’ikanatha NM, Tsui FC, et al. Automatic electronic laboratory-based reporting … EpicCare Ambulatory. Available at http://www.epicsystems. com/Software/EnterpriseClinical.php#ambulatory. Accessed …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Reporting via CDC’s Public Health Information Grid

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    CDC is building a public health information grid to enable controlled distribution of data, services and applications for researchers, Federal authorities, local and state health departments nationwide, enabling efficient… read more
    … aggregate analysis of distributed data sources may detect clusters that might be invisible to smaller, … Federated aggregate analysis of distributed data sources may detect clusters that might be invisible to smaller, …
  • A Comparison of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Department Encounters as Data Sources for Detection of Clusters of Lower Gastrointestinal Illness

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    We sought to compare ambulatory care (AC) and emergency department (ED) data for the detection of clusters of lower gastrointestinal illness, using AC and ED data and AC+ED data combined, from two geographically separate health plans participating… read more
    … For each data stream— AC, ED, and AC+ED combined—repeat visits were omitted if they occurred within 6 weeks of a previous visit to the same setting for LGI. Generalized linear mixed …
  • Detection of Shigella Outbreaks in Argentina Using WHONET and SaTScan

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    Electronic laboratory-based surveillance can significantly improve the diagnostic specificity and response time of traditional infectious disease surveillance. Under the project “Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study”, we… read more
    … Group WHONET-Argentina, established in 1986, comprises 70 microbiology laboratories nationwide [2], all of which … space and time with known outbreaks and 2 additional ones may have corresponded with known outbreaks, relationships … and Information Management Services, Inc. SaTScan(TM) v.7.0: Software for the spatial and time-scan statistics. …
  • Klompas et al. Respond: Automated Public Health Reporting-- Possible with a Coalition of the Willing

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    Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of the challenges inherent in disseminating and sustaining robust information systems to automate the detection and reporting of notifiable diseases using data from electronic medical records (EMR). New… read more
    … Medical Associates, Boston, MA. Received for publication May 8, 2007; accepted for publication May 9, 2007. Professor Hripcsak rightly points out some of … professional societies, regulators, providers, com- mercial EMR vendors, and academia. We hope that co- …
  • Comparing the Utility of Ambulatory Care and Emergency Room Data for Disease Outbreak Detection

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    To compare the ability to detect disease outbreaks of separate and combined data streams from ambulatory care and emergency department from Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
    … made among them. Alternatively, these data sources can be com- bined in order to generate a common sequence of … sources of data can be correlated since individuals may seek care in a variety of settings, including hospital … The x-coordinates represent the day of the signals and y- coordinate the associated Recurrence Interval. …