Electronic Support for Public Health: Validated Case Finding and Reporting for Notifiable Diseases Using Electronic Medical Data

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-24

  Lazarus, Ross ^a,b   Klompas, Michael ^a,b   Campion, Francis X ^c   McNabb, Scott J N ^d   Hou, Xuanlin ^a,b   Daniel, James ^e   Haney, Gillian ^e   DeMaria, Alfred ^e   Lenert, Leslie ^d   Platt, Richard ^a,b  

^a HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Atrius Health   (United States)

^d CDC   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; COMPUTER SECURITY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PUBLIC HEALTH ADMINISTRATION; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57149127529     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2848     Document Type: Article

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