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  • Where are the data? Accuracy of automated EHR reporting

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    Over 300 independent practices transmit monthly quality reports to a data warehouse using an automated process to summarize patient information into quality measures. All practices have implemented an EHR that captures clinical information to be… read more
    … information on smoking status and cessation intervention. Document … A total of 82 small practices received training on document- ing in the EHR to maximize performance on quality … Despite train- ing, providers do not consistently document smoking status as intended by the EHR interface …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United States: Findings from a Survey of State, Territorial, and Selected Local Health Departments

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    In 2007-2008, the authors surveyed public health officials in 59 state, territorial, and selected large local jurisdictions in the United States regarding their conduct and use of syndromic surveillance. Fifty-two (88%) responded, representing areas… read more
    … influenza surveillance, are emerging as the main utility. Document Syndromic Surveillance Practice in the United … registry of syndromic surveillance systems. Based on this guidance, we designed a survey instru- ment (Appendix II) …
  • Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance

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    For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more
    … health actions that reasonably follow from surveillance, guidance can be found in the principles known as the “Fair … providers and pub- lic health agencies. CDC technical guidance and stipulations attached to the funding also shape … requirements generally (7), the absence of specifi c guidance from the Court makes it diffi cult to determine how …
  • Building Meaningful Use Reporting Infrastructure In NH Through Partnerships

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    Under the Electronic Health Record Incentive Program Rule, hospitals are eligible to receive incentive payments from the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services provided they meet certain requirements including Meaningful Use (MU). Demonstrating… read more
    … with the NH Regional Extension Center (REC) to host MU guidance and brokered with Orion Health, the Office of the … integrated with the NH HIE. The MU REC website provided guidance, FAQs, state rules and allowed NH DPHS to commu- …
  • Visualization of Syndromic Surveillance Using GIS

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    Syndromic Surveillance has been in use in New York City since 2001, with 2.5 million visits reported from 39 participating emergency departments, covering an estimated 75% of annual visits. As syndromic surveillance becomes increasingly spatial and… read more
    … with GIS can standardize and expedite results. Document … user processes provides a way to standardize analysis, document procedures and more effectively complete GIS …
  • Validation of Data from Medical Registrations in The Netherlands for Syndromic Surveillance Use: Comparing Respiratory Syndromes with Laboratory Surveillance

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    Objective To study if syndromic surveillance would have an added value over existing surveillance systems, we retrospectively evaluated whether known trends in respiratory pathogens are reflected in medical registrations in the… read more
    … using the CDC syndrome grouping of ICD9 codes as a guidance after translating the codes to the coding systems …
  • Evolution of a Syndromic Surveillance Case Definition

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    In North Carolina, select hospital emergency departments have been submitting data since 2003 for use in syndromic surveillance. These data are collected, stored, and parsed into syndrome categories by the North Carolina… read more
    … its ability to capture the appropriate syndromic cases. Document … derived case definition terms from the consensus document text description of smallpox and modified these …
  • Identifying Syndromic Fingerprints in Reason Fields in Emergency Department or Telehealth Records using N-grams for Similarity Analysis

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    An N-gram is a sub-sequence of n items from a given sequence where n can be 1, 2,…, n and the items can be letters or words. N-gram models are widely used in statistical natural language processing [3]. In the syndromic surveillance context, N-grams… read more
    … that these fingerprints are valuable for classification. Document … Text categori- sation”, Proceedings of Symposium on Document Analysis and Information Retrieval, Las Vegas, NV. …