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Early detection of disease outbreak using electronic patient data to reduce public health threat from bio-terrorism

  • US 20090076851A1
  • Filed: 08/13/2008
  • Published: 03/19/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for automated identification of disease outbreak, the method comprising:

  • obtaining patient records for patients being treated, at least some of the patient records containing information derived with a processor by data mining from individual data collections of the patients being treated, the information derived with the processor from an unstructured data source including text format, image information, waveform information or combinations thereof, the patient records being a machine readable structured dataset including the information derived with the processor from the unstructured data source and information from a structured data source;

    correlating selected patient data from the structured dataset, including data from the unstructured data source, contained in the patient records with disease indicia for at least one disease;

    identifying an anomaly at least in part based on the correlations; and

    outputting an alert about the anomaly.

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