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Published 11/06/2009 by Computerworld UK


US in drive to track swine flu outbreaks in real-time

Dr. Chris Crow, a family physician in Plano, Texas, said that in 10 years of practising medicine, he has never seen flu spread like it has in the past six weeks. Crow said he has been treating at least three new flu patients a day during that time.

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CDC adopts new, near real-time flu tracking system
GE Healthcare-hosted system gives CDC access to medical data from 14 million patientsTop StoriesComputerworld - Dr. Chris Crow, a family physician in Plano, Texas, ... - [11/05/2009 - Computerworld]

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...10 physicians. "When we had the initial H1N1 scare back in the spring, the county and state health departments were absolutely overwhelmed with the volume of calls and tests being reported to them."
US in drive to track swine flu outbreaks in real-time [Computerworld UK - 11/06/2009]
"You not only want to get the data from here to there, but then you also have to say, 'I need to normalize that data,'" said Dr. Mark Dente...
US in drive to track swine flu outbreaks in real-time [Computerworld UK - 11/06/2009]
...GE Healthcare IT. "For example, one doctor says hypertension, another says HTN and someone else says high blood pressure, but it all means the same thing when you enter a query against the data."
US in drive to track swine flu outbreaks in real-time [Computerworld UK - 11/06/2009]

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