EpiPortal: an electronic decision support system for infection control.
A comprehensive, electronic hospital epidemiology decision support system serves diverse users but its primary user is the infection control professional (ICP). Utilizing off-the-shelf components and accepted standards enables the system to be open, vendor-independent and ICP-controlled. Its development can flexibly respond to the evolving nature of infection control practice.
Wajngurt
David
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Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Hong
Frank
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Chaudhry
Rohit
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Hyman
Sandra
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Ross
Barbara
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Fracaro
Margaret
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D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical; D004812:Epidemiologic Methods; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D009323:Natural Language Processing