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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. … -
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… tronic nomenclature and reporting elements for notifiable dis- eases. Ideally these parties will also accept … patches with updated case definitions available to all ESP machines under their jurisdiction. VOLUME 3 NUMBER 5 … universal, efficient, accurate, and sustained notifiable dis- ease reporting from EMRs will only be possible with …