Syndromic surveillance for health information system failures: a feasibility study.

Mei-Sing Ong; Farah Magrabi; Enrico Coiera

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Syndromic surveillance for health information system failures: a feasibility study.

August 14, 2013

Ong M-S, Magrabi F, Coiera E. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2013;20(3):506-12.

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Syndromic surveillance—an approach used to identify infectious disease epidemics—can be applied to monitor health information technologies for early signs of unreliability or failure.

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