Validation of the Michigan's Public Health Syndromic System Using Electronic Medical Records

Michigan has been collecting chief complaint data from emergency departments statewide to support situational awareness activities related to communicable disease since 2004. We validated the syndromic system by comparing the chief complaint data to the electronic medical records of a tertiary hospital in southeast Michigan to better understand the utility of the system for noncommunicable disease situations.

Objective

Validation of the syndromic system by comparing the chief complaint data to the electronic medical records (EMR) of a tertiary hospital.