Objective In early 2010, Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital began an
interoperability project with the distinctive goal of developing a platform to enable medical …

Objective: Unstructured electronic information sources, such as news reports, are proving to
be valuable inputs for public health surveillance. However, staying abreast of current …

A patient’s medical records are generally fragmented across multiple treatment sites, posing
an obstacle to clinical care, research, and public health efforts. 1 Electronic medical records …

Syndromic surveillance refers to methods relying on detection of individual and population
health indicators that are discernible before confirmed diagnoses are made. In particular, …

Over the past year, several payers, employers, and commercial vendors have announced
personal health record projects. Few of these are widely deployed and few are fully integrated …

… Kenneth D Mandl … Kenneth D Mandl … Reis BY, Mandl KD (2003) Integrating
syndromic surveillance data across multiple locations: Effects on outbreak detection …

Mobile health (mHealth) customers shopping for applications (apps) should be aware of app
privacy practices so they can make informed decisions about purchase and use. We sought …

Purpose Adverse drug events (ADEs) are a common complication of medical care resulting
in high morbidity and medical expenditure. Population level estimates of outpatient ADEs are …

It has been argued that big data will enable efficiencies and accountability in health care. 1,
2 However, to date, other industries have been far more successful at obtaining value from …

ContextLimited computed tomography with rectal contrast (CTRC) has been shown to be 98%
accurate in the diagnosis of appendicitis in the adult population, but data are lacking …