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 System Watches Live EMR Data for Signs of Epidemics

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Date posted: 08/04/2009

This week GE Healthcare, in partnership with Centers for Disease Control & Prevention and Johns Hopkins University, has unveiled a public disease tracking system that monitors symptoms entered into hospital EMR systems. By combining data from different regional medical facilities, the system should issue warnings when similar conditions are being reported at the same time. Although the current prototype works on GE's Healthcare's Centricity EMR system, the technology could be expandable to clinics using other EMR's.

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