Real-time clinician text feeds from electronic health records.
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SUBMITTER: Teo JTH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7904856 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
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Real-time clinician text feeds from electronic health records.
Teo James T H JTH Dinu Vlad V Bernal William W Davidson Phil P Oliynyk Vitaliy V Breen Cormac C Barker Richard D RD Dobson Richard J B RJB
NPJ digital medicine 20210224 1
Analyses of search engine and social media feeds have been attempted for infectious disease outbreaks, but have been found to be susceptible to artefactual distortions from health scares or keyword spamming in social media or the public internet. We describe an approach using real-time aggregation of keywords and phrases of freetext from real-time clinician-generated documentation in electronic health records to produce a customisable real-time viral pneumonia signal providing up to 4 days warni ...[more]
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