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Syndrome Development to Assess IDU, HIV, and Homelessness in MA Emergency Departments
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In Massachusetts, syndromic surveillance (SyS) data have been used to monitor injection drug use and acute opioid overdoses within EDs. Currently, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) SyS captures over 90% of ED visits statewide. These… read more… of Public Health (MDPH) SyS captures over 90% of ED visits statewide. These real-time data contain rich … clinical and demographic information used to categorize visits for population level public health surveillance. … have shown elevated rates of opioid overdose related ED visits, Emergency Medical Service incidents, and fatalities … -
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 … -
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- … -
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 … (100%) 9/11 (82%) CONCLUSIONS These results suggest it may be possible to achieve both high sensitivity and …