Innovations in population health surveillance: Using electronic health records for chronic disease surveillance

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 853-857

  Perlman, Sharon E ^a   McVeigh, Katharine H ^a   Thorpe, Lorna E ^b   Jacobson, Laura ^a   Greene, Carolyn M ^a   Gwynn, R Charon ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INVENTION; NEW YORK; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INVENTIONS; NEW YORK CITY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 85020403117     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303813     Document Type: Review

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