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  • Unstructured Free-text Data and Meaningful Use

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    In 2010, as rules for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Electronic Heatlh Record (EHR) Incentive Programs (Meaningful Use)(1), were finalized, ISDS became aware of a trend towards new EHR systems capturing or sending emergency department (ED)… read more
    … or sending emergency department (ED) chief complaint (CC) data as structured variables without including the … surveillance and survey data on the value of free-text CC to public health practice. On 1/31/11, ISDS, in … was conducted to better support a requirement for ED CC as free-text, by investigating the relationship between …
  • Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot

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    The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more
    … departments for their own surveillance needs. Originally, sites were asked to send whatever syndrome definition they … to send their broader, higher count syndrome. In 2008, sites were asked to send both a broad syndrome, and a narrow … illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot DR …
  • A Controlled Vocabulary for "Reason for Visit" in Ambulatory Encounters

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    Objective: To enable improved health surveillance and clinical decision support within ambulatory Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
    … systems. Document A_Controlled_Vocabulary_For_Reason_For_Visit_In_Ambulatory_Encounters.pdf 3 views Submitted by … 1.E+00 1.E+01 1.E+02 1.E+03 Rank of Term N um be r o f O cc ur en ce s RANKED SLOPE= -1 A Controlled Vocabulary for “Reason for Visit” in Ambulatory Encounters F Mostashari*, N Soulakis*, …
  • Timeliness of Ambulatory Data for Age-Specific ILI Surveillance

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    While there has been some work to evaluate different data sources for syndromic surveillance of influenza, no one has yet assessed the utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using… read more
    … utility of simultaneously restricting data to specific visit settings and patient age-groups using data drawn from … the timeliness of data from community-based primary care.   Objective Using physician billing data from a single … source population, we aimed to compare age-group and visit setting specific patterns in the timing of patients …
  • Predicting Malaria in a Highly Endemic Country using Environmental and Clinical Data Sources

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    In 1911, Christophers developed an early-warning system for malaria epidemics in Punjab based on rainfall, fever-related deaths and wheat prices. Since that initial system, researchers and practitioners have continued to search for determinants of… read more
    … models for forecasting malaria at six different sentinel sites in Uganda, using environmental and clinical data … models for forecasting malaria at six different sentinel sites in Uganda, using environmental and clinical data …
  • Comparison of Distribute and ILINet for national influenza surveillance

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    During the spring of 2009, a public health emergency was declared in response to the emergence of the 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) virus. Owing to the response, timely data were needed to improve situational awareness and to inform… read more
    … reports of influenza-like illness (ILI) and total patient visits to EDs from participating health jurisdictions, … local and state health departments and primary health care providers. The network currently consists of … reports of influenza-like illness (ILI) and total patient visits to EDs from participating health jurisdictions, …
  • Using Surveillance Data to Identify Risk Factors for Severe H1N1 in First Nations

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    Research has shown that Canadian First Nation (FN) populations were disproportionately affected by the 2009 H1N1 influenza pan- demic. However, the mechanisms for the disproportionate outcomes are not well understood. Possibilities such as… read more
    … We estimated the odds of hospitalization and inten- sive care unit admission for cases of H1N1 influenza among FN … and pandemic wave) on hospitaliza- tion and intensive care unit admission for severe influenza. 9 views Submitted … We estimated the odds of hospitalization and inten- sive care unit admission for cases of H1N1 influenza among FN …
  • BioSense program redesign

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    The BioSense program’s mission is to support and improve public health surveillance infrastructure and human capacity required to monitor (with minimal lag) critical population health indicators of the scope and severity of acute… read more
    … out- comes and public health, and (4) monitoring health care quality. BioSense, as an all-hazards and timely … cited. Figure 1 The BioSense Redesign Collaboration Site (https://sites.google. com/site/biosenseredesign). Emerging Health …