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Automated surveillance and public health reporting for gestational diabetes incidence and care using electronic health record data
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Public health departments have a strong interest in monitoring the incidence, care, and complications of gestational diabetes, as it is associated with poor outcomes for infants and increased risk of diabetes type II for mothers.… read more… have a strong interest in monitoring the incidence, care, and complications of gestational diabetes, as it is … small sample size, no information about processes of care), and occasional research studies. Automated analysis … health reporting for gestational diabetes incidence and care using electronic health record data M Klompas1, J … -
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… Kruskal4, and Richard Platt1,2 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA. 2 Channing Laboratory, Department of … commercial EMRs are completed, the most likely future sites for ESP will continue to be large group practices or … -
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… on either a central workstation to service large multi-site, multi-physician practices or as a software module … DeMaria3, and Richard Platt1,2 1 Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard … yet to test the application at a second implementation site, however, hence the true extent of the system’s … -
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… James Daniel MPH,1,4 Francis Campion MD,1,5 William Dumas RN,4 Benjamin Kruskal MD PhD,5 Alfred DeMaria MD,4 … Informatics, Boston, MA; 2Department of Ambula- tory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard … ESP has been in- stalled in Atrius Health, a multi-site, multi-specialty medical practice with over 600 … -
Automated chronic disease surveillance and visualization using electronic health record data
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Chronic diseases are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity for Americans but public health surveillance for these conditions is limited. Health departments currently use telephone interviews, medical surveys, and death certificates to gather… read more… Mandl2,3 and Richard Platt1,2 1Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA, USA; 2Harvard Medical School, … A1C and cholesterol levels), diabetes type and care (medications and medical nutrition counseling). … a rich, timely picture of chronic disease prevalence, care and complications for large populations. This … -
Automated Detection of Tuberculosis Using Electronic Medical Record Data
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Approximately one quarter of people treated for tuberculosis (TB) have no supporting microbiology, and thus are not detectable through laboratory reporting systems. Health departments depend upon clinicians to report these… read more… Health Informatics, Boston, MA; 2Department of Ambulatory Care and Pre- vention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA; 3Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s … -
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting via CDC’s Public Health Information Grid
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CDC is building a public health information grid to enable controlled distribution of data, services and applications for researchers, Federal authorities, local and state health departments nationwide, enabling efficient… read more… in Public Health Informatics, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard …