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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… identification and notification is a salient re- minder that sophisticated technology alone is not enough to … working on enabling ESP to send clinical messages back into the secured clinical inter- face of the EMR. In … professional societies, regulators, providers, com- mercial EMR vendors, and academia. We hope that co- … -
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… omitted if they occurred within 6 weeks of a previous visit to the same setting for LGI. Generalized linear mixed … -
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… percentage of visits for ILI from sentinel providers were com- pared to rolling, seven-day totals of calls for ILI and … ] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit d nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
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… [2] Henry JV, Magruder S, Snyder M. Comparison of office visit and nurse advice hotline data for syndromic … -
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… ant prescriptions. Response messages are transmitted back to the health department in HL7 format following the … Lyme disease, for example, can be diagnosed from the com- bination of 1) an ICD9 code 088.81 (erythema chronicum … EpicCare Ambulatory. Available at http://www.epicsystems. com/Software/EnterpriseClinical.php#ambulatory. Accessed …