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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… 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… and Prevention, 133 Brookline Avenue, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org) 1 Advances in Disease … initiative and is still largely done manually by mail, fax, or telephone. Some jurisdic- tions have … the denominator of their choice (e.g., total ambu- latory visits, total number of patients tested for the condition, … -
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… and Prevention, 133 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA 02215 (e-mail: mklompas@partners.org). 1 Advances in Disease … definitions. When a new code is detected, ESP sends an e-mail alert to ESP administrators, asking them to review and … -
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… state’s web-based health alert network [5] or via e-mail from the surveillance system’s data center. Each …