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Health IT meaningful use: how the EHR certification may improve the electronic laboratory reporting (ELR)
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) brought significant incentives to providers for implementing certified EHR technologies. It specifically requires utilization of certified electronic health records (EHRs) for electronic exchange of… read more… electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) capacities. Document … of health. We analyzed ELR messaging require- ments using documents that were published through official HL7 and CDC … -
International System for Total Early Disease Detection (InSTEDD) Platform
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This paper describes a hybrid (event-based and indicator-based) surveillance platform designed to streamline the collaboration between domain experts and machine learning algorithms for detection, prediction and response to health-related events (… read more… to health-related events (such as disease outbreaks). Document … (SMS messages, RSS feeds, email list (e.g., ProMed), documents, web pages, electronic medical records, animal … -
Standard Operation Procedures for Three Syndromic Surveillance Systems in Washoe County, Nevada - A Local Perspective
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Washoe County District Health Department (WCDHD) is a local health district serving nearly 400,000 residents in Washoe County including cities of Reno and Sparks, the second largest urban area in Nevada. To enhance overall public health surveillance… read more… existing syndromic surveillance systems in WCDHD, Nevada. Document … is performed by the same staff who monitors signal(s) and documents in a spreadsheet. Staff reports signals to the … -
T-Cube as an Enabling Technology in Surveillance Applications
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T-Cube is especially useful for rapidly retrieving responses to ad-hoc queries against large datasets of additive time series labeled using a set of categorical attributes. It can be used as a general tool to support any task… read more… as many kinds of complex automated analyses feasible. Document … /ENU (Use these settings to create Adobe PDF documents for quality printing on desktop printers and proofers. Created PDF documents can be opened with Acrobat and Adobe Reader 5.0 … -
Building an automated Bayesian case detection system
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Current practices of automated case detection fall into the extremes of diagnostic accuracy and timeliness. In regards to diagnostic accuracy, electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is at one extreme and syndromic surveillance is at… read more… of our recently developed automated BCD system. Document … L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med … -
Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System Evaluation, Ebonyi State Nigeria, 2017
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Nigeria is one of the three countries in the world with ongoing wild poliovirus (WPV) transmission, alongside Afghanistan and Pakistan. Nigeria also experiences outbreaks of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2). Following the… read more… its usefulness, performance and key system attributes. Document Acute Flaccid Paralysis Surveillance System … on key surveillance indicators. We also reviewed relevant documents and reports. Results Funding and logistics for AFP … -
An automated influenza-like-illness reporting system using freetext emergency department reports
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Current methods for influenza surveillance include laboratory confirmed case reporting, sentinel physician reporting of Influenza-Like-Illness (ILI) and chief-complaint monitoring from emergency departments (EDs). The current… read more… at the Allegheny County Health Department. Document … L, Lussier Y, Hripcsak G. Automated encoding of clinical documents based on natural language processing. J Am Med … -
An Open Source Web Services Toolkit for Event Detection Algorithms
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As major disease outbreaks are rare, empirical evaluation of statistical methods for outbreak detection requires the use of modified or completely simulated health event data in addition to real data. Comparisons of different techniques will be more… read more… and exposing this framework via a web services interface. Document … All web services interfaces are defined using WSDL documents allowing for easy connectivity between diverse …