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Secrets of My Success (and Failures): Productive Practitioner/Researcher Collaboration
Content Type: Webinar
Two public health practitioners will describe their experiences collaborating with University researchers to develop and evaluate new informatics tools for public health. They will identify factors that led to the successes and failures in those… read more… … Secrets Of My Success (and Failures): Productive … core data system ! MPI ! Shared learning, oriented us ! May use Regenstrief’s MPI ! Reportable disease case … Practice and Research Committees … 984 … Secrets of My Success (and Failures): Productive … -
Meaningful Use: What it is and Why it matters
Content Type: Webinar
Expert panelists Art Davidson (Denver Health) and Julia Gunn (Boston Public Health Commission), whose respective organizations were 2009 Davies Awards recipients, gave a 30 minute webinar on Meaningful Use and electronic health record technology.… read more… gaining a better understanding of Meaningful Use, how it may impact their surveillance work, and how they can work … gaining a better understanding of Meaningful Use, how it may impact their surveillance work, and how they can work … -
Detection of a Vaccine-preventable Reportable Disease: Comparison of Physician Reporting vs. an Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System
Content Type: Abstract
Communicable diseases are underreported by physicians, especially diseases without laboratory tests. The goals of our study were to determine reporting levels for clinical chickenpox, describe clinical data elements common to chickenpox, and assess… read more… on intake. 37% had varicella vaccine at a prior clinic visit. Chief complaints included rash (62%), chickenpox … (3%). 81% were prescribed medications during their visit, including dyphenhydramine or hydroxyzine (43%), … the time period BioSense was utilized, 16/23 cases (70%) were detected as part of the rash syndrome. … -
Stakeholder Perspectives of Biosurveillance: a Qualitative Analysis
Content Type: Abstract
For more than a decade, biosurveillance systems (and more recently BioSense) have been employed in the United States. Efforts to drastically expand these surveillance capacities have been a national priority given concerns … read more… response in these communities. Results Site visits to NYC, Boston, and Baltimore were conducted over 2 … redefines itself for the next 5 years1, additional value may be derived from stronger relationships with data … Public Health Links; 2008.http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/ news/NHIN25932-1.html Advances in Disease Surveillance …