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Assessing the Utility of Syndromic Surveillance Systems during Extreme Weather Conditions
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Recent extreme weather events have caused serious health and social problems across Europe. During the summer heat waves of 2003 across Europe, France recorded an excess of over 14,000 deaths contributed to heat-related causes. Other countries such… read more… data has been proposed as one method of surveillance that may be used to alert public health authorities during … electronic medical records for emergency department visits, are already in existence in many of the countires … will be developed considering both initial chief com- plaints and final diagnoses. Anecdotal evidence sug- … -
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 … -
Understanding the Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for Meaningful Use Stage 2: The Public Health Perspective
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James Daniel, MPH, Public Health Coordinator from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will be discussing the ONC's and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM… read more… public comment period that is open from March 7, 2012 to May 7, 2012. Presenter: James Daniel, MPH Public Health … public comment period that is open from March 7, 2012 to May 7, 2012. Presenter: James Daniel, MPH Public Health … -
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- …