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On to Meaningful Use Stage 2: Refining Public Health Readiness Guidelines
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In the U.S., federal programs are accelerating the meaningful use of electronic health record (EHR) technology and encouraging greater standardization in how governmental public health agencies (PHAs) establish surveillance data partnerships with… read moreOpenESSENCE: Disease Surveillance through Medical Record System Integration with OpenMRS
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OpenMRS has global presence as an open source web based medical record system (MRS). It is built on an extensible, modular framework that allows the user to create a MRS that is as simple or complex as needed. OE is a multi-user network accessible… read moreORBiT Ã The Oak Ridge Biosurveillance Toolkit
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ORBiT is implemented as a distributed analytic platform consisting of a software stack atop of Hadoop and makes use of Titan, a distributed graph database as a backend for data storage. Data from each of the traditional and non-traditional sources… read moreBuilding the Road to a Regional Zoonoses Strategy: a Survey of Zoonoses Programs in the Americas
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Zoonoses account for over 70% of emerging infectious diseases in humans. In recent years, global public health security has been threatened by zoonotic disease emergence as exemplified by outbreaks of H5N1 and H1N1 influenza, SARS, and most recently… read moreOutcomes of Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant (allo-SCT) Recipients in the Era of Newer Antifungal Agents
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Fungal infections (FI) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among patients undergoing allo-SCT. The newer anti-fungal agents, the echinocandins and extended spectrum azoles, have offered alternatives to Amphotericin B and fluconazole. Data… read moreOver-the-counter Medication Sales Surveillance for Early Detection of Respiratory Epidemics in Rural China
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Respiratory infectious diseases are the most common diseases reported in rural China. Studies have suggested that the OTC retail sale data could be used to detect early outbreak (1, 2). However, few researches have performed to identify whether OTC… read moreOverview of the BioSense 2.0 System Architecture
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BioSense 2.0 protects the health of the American people by providing timely insight into the health of communities, regions, and the nation by offering a variety of features to improve data collection, standardization, storage, analysis, and… read morePatterns of Emergency Care Utilization by Chronically Ill
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The nature of Emergency Room services makes the patients' visits hard to predict and control and the services incur high costs. Chronic patients should not require urgent care to treat their chronic illness, if they were properly managed in… read more