News tagged with electronic surveillance


Regenstrief study: Informatics tools underutilized in prevention of hospital-acquired infection

Advances in electronic medical record systems and health information exchange are shifting efforts in public health toward greater use of information systems to automate disease surveillance, but a study from the Regenstrief ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 20, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novel racial/ethnic differences found in diabetic kidney disease

(HealthDay)—Rates of proteinuric and nonproteinuric diabetic kidney disease (DKD) vary significantly across racial/ethnic groups, according to a study published online Dec. 13 in Diabetes Care.

Diabetes created Jan 14, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Badger sleeping habits could help target TB control

Sleeping away from the family home is linked to health risks for badgers, new research by the University of Exeter and the Food and Environment Research Agency has revealed.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New report explains why physicians are reluctant to share patient data

Family doctors are reluctant to disclose identifiable patient information, even in the context of an influenza pandemic, mostly in an effort to protect patient privacy. A recently published study by Dr. Khaled El Emam the ...

Health created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0