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Assessing the Impact of Syndromic Surveillance Systems on Routine Public Health Practice: Identifying and Evaluating Syndromic Signals
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We describe the development and implementation of a protocol for identifying syndromic signals and for assessing their value to public health departments for routine (non-bioterrorism) purposes. The specific objectives of the evaluation are to… read more… Sherwood,6 Richard Platt1 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 2 Massachusetts Department of Public Health, 3 Kaiser … The evaluation period is expected to begin at most sites in August 2005. CONCLUSIONS This prospective … -
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… Kruskal4, and Richard Platt1,2 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA. 2 Channing Laboratory, Department of … commercial EMRs are completed, the most likely future sites for ESP will continue to be large group practices or … -
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… electronic medical records for emergency department visits, are already in existence in many of the countires … electronic medical records for emergency department visits, are already in exis- tence in many of the countires … electronic medical records for emergency department visits, are already in existence in many of the countires … -
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… on either a central workstation to service large multi-site, multi-physician practices or as a software module … DeMaria3, and Richard Platt1,2 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard … yet to test the application at a second implementation site, however, hence the true extent of the system’s … -
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… James Daniel MPH,1,4 Francis Campion MD,1,5 William Dumas RN,4 Benjamin Kruskal MD PhD,5 Alfred DeMaria MD,4 … Informatics, Boston, MA; 2Department of Ambula- tory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard … ESP has been in- stalled in Atrius Health, a multi-site, multi-specialty medical practice with over 600 …