Influenza surveillance using electronic health records in the American Indian and Alaska Native population.

DISCUSSION: EHR-based ILI surveillance was accurate, timely, occurred at the majority of IHS facilities nationwide, and provided useful information for decision makers. EHRs thus offer the opportunity to transform public health surveillance.
PMID: 23744788 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association - June 6, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Keck JW, Redd JT, Cheek JE, Layne LJ, Groom AV, Kitka S, Bruce MG, Suryaprasad A, Amerson NL, Cullen T, Bryan RT, Hennessy TW Tags: J Am Med Inform Assoc Source Type: research