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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 … -
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. … -
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 …