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  • 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
    … in Disease Surveillance 2007;3:3 information by retaining all data behind the practice’s elec- tronic firewall until a … for truncated keywords such as “chlam*” for chlamy- dia or “hep*” for hepatitis. When a novel code containing … 1999;282: 1845–50. 3. Panackal AA, M’ikanatha NM, Tsui FC, et al. Automatic electronic laboratory-based reporting …
  • Evaluating Syndromic Signals from Ambulatory Care Data in Four States

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    The utility of syndromic surveillance systems to augment health departments’ traditional surveillance for naturally occurring disease has not been prospectively evaluated.   Objective In this interim… read more
    … data center; health depart- ments collect data on all clusters of infectious disease that come to their … provide these data to the data center via the system’s website in uniform databases developed by the Massachusetts … and an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 from a pig roast with 26 ill. Sensitivity and positive predictive value to date …
  • Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data

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    Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more
    … and care (medications and medical nutrition counseling). De-identified linelists are transmitted nightly to a secure website called the ‘RiskScape’ that auto- matically maps … permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in …
  • Automated surveillance and public health reporting for gestational diabetes incidence and care using electronic health record data

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    Public health departments have a strong interest in monitoring the incidence, care, and complications of gestational diabetes, as it is associated with poor outcomes for infants and increased risk of diabetes type II for mothers.… read more
    … visually to the state health department via secured website. Results Screening for positive oral …
  • The Electronic Support for Public Health (ESP) Project: Automated Detection and Electronic Reporting of Notifiable Diseases

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    Clinician reporting of notifiable diseases has historically been slow, labor intensive, and incomplete. Manual and electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) systems have increased the timeliness, efficiency, and completeness of… read more
    … Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 4Massachusetts De- partment of Public Health, Boston, MA; 5Atrius Health, … system that detects and reports patients with notifiable dis- eases to the state health department using EMR data. …
  • 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
    … 3 views Submitted by elamb on Tue, 03/26/2019 - 16:22 … isolates, percentage ILI, or both indica- tors for all regions. The peak week for calls fell within one week of … illness in ambulatory care setting. erg Infect Dis 2004;10:1806-11. ] Ritzwoller DP, Kleinman K, Palen TE, …
  • 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
    … tronic nomenclature and reporting elements for notifiable dis- eases. Ideally these parties will also accept … patches with updated case definitions available to all ESP machines under their jurisdiction. VOLUME 3 NUMBER 5 … universal, efficient, accurate, and sustained notifiable dis- ease reporting from EMRs will only be possible with …
  • Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data

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    Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more
    … data spanning June 2006 to July 2007. The charts of all patients identified by the algorithms were reviewed to … by each algorithm was compared to a master list of all Atrius Health patients known to have TB during the test … data from health maintenance organizations.” Emerg Infect Dis. 1999;5(6):779-787. [3] Klompas et al. “Electronic …