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Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ


4. Non-mandated Clinical Reporting ("Syndromic Surveillance")

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  • Pre-diagnostic data (e.g., ED chief complaints, measured temperature) tied to statistical algorithms can provide real-time outbreak alerting and disease trends
  • Anonymized or aggregated
  • Investigable

A graphic shows that, at the Send level, data sources report data to public health through a reporting router (The circle labeled "public health" is highlighted with a large number 4). Source may push data for reporting.

Notes:

"etch server model"


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