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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. … -
Enteric Disease Surveillance: Seasonal Changes in Population Profiles
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In the last decade, time series analysis has become one of the most important tools of surveillance systems. Understanding the nature of temporal fluctuations is essential for successful development of outbreak detection algorithms, aberration… read more… single-year age distributions were calculated for all reported cases in the four infections. Next, sets of … for each infection. Each set included time series for all population and three age groups (<18y, 18-64y, 65y+). To … to 0.63 (cryptosporidiosis vs salmonellosis), mostly due to the fact that for each infection, children (<5y) and …