Evaluating Population Coverage in a Regional Distributed Data Network: Implications for Electronic Health Record-Based Public Health Surveillance.

Kenneth A ScottEmily BaconEmily McCormick KrausJohn F SteinerGregory BudneyJessica BondyL Dean McEwenArthur J Davidson

Published in: Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) (2020)

The DDN population is not a random sample of the regional adult population; it is influenced by health care use patterns and organizations participating in the DDN. Strengths and limitations of DDNs complement those of survey-based approaches. The regional DDN is a promising public health surveillance tool.

Keyphrases

public health
electronic health record
healthcare
clinical decision support
global health
adverse drug
cross sectional
big data
neural network
machine learning
health information