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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… 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 …