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Getting the Word Out When the Need for Speed Is Critical to Public Health
April 28th, 2009
When the need for speed is critical, how can a public health department communicate with doctors and hospitals, sending alerts to help prevent or stop a public health crisis' How can thousands of health-care providers be notified about disease outbreaks, illness from food borne contaminants or even a possible pandemic' Researchers from the Regenstrief Institute, Inc. in collaboration with the Marion County Health Department (Indianapolis, Ind), have developed and tested a technology that allows public health officials to abandon a traditional, inefficient paper approach to alerting the medical community about public health crises in favor of an electronic strategy to...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-04-28)
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