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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
    … Lyme disease, for example, can be diagnosed from the com- bination of 1) an ICD9 code 088.81 (erythema chronicum … 2000–2005. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2005;54: 822–5. 5. Thacker SB, Choi K, Brachman PS. The surveillance of … 30–6. 8. EpicCare Ambulatory. Available at http://www.epicsystems. …
  • 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
    … with a combined positive predictive value of 82%. By com- parison, the most sensitive single algorithm (any ICD9 … Control. “Sum- mary Statistics For The Year 2005.” http://www.mass.gov/dph/cdc/tb/tb_summarydata.rtf [2] Yokoe et al. …
  • 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
    … professional societies, regulators, providers, com- mercial EMR vendors, and academia. We hope that co- operation amongst these parties can help us all to meet …
  • 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 …
  • 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 …
  • 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
    … Software for the spatial and time-scan statistics. http://www.satscan.org, 2006. [2] Rossi A, Tokumoto M, Galas M, … and analysis of microbiology laboratory results. http://www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware, 2007. Further … John Stelling, jstelling@rics.bwh.harvard.edu www.who.int/drugresistance/whonetsoftware Advances in …
  • 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
    … Clinic and Austin Diagnostic Clinic, Austin/Travis Co. and Williamson Co. health departments); and San Mateo County, California … 10 sig- nals. None of the 10 corresponded to clusters of con- cern to the respective health department. The statisti- …
  • 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
    … Klompas et al.; licensee Emerging Health Threats Journal. www.eht-journal.org 23 medical nutrition therapy, 28% were … Health Threats Journal M Klompas et al. 2011, 4:s34 www.eht-journal.org page 2/2 24 …