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cord-016528-j7lflryj	Waller, Anna E.	Using Emergency Department Data For Biosurveillance: The North Carolina Experience	2010-07-27		.txt	text/plain	6828	313	43	The benefits and challenges of using Emergency Department data for surveillance are described in this chapter through examples from one biosurveillance system, the North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT). With electronic health information systems, these data are available in near real-time, making them particularly useful for surveillance and situational awareness in rapidly developing public health outbreaks or disasters. Biosurveillance is an emerging field that provides early detection of disease outbreaks by collecting and interpreting data on a variety of public health threats, including emerging infectious diseases (e.g., avian influenza), vaccine preventable diseases (e.g., pertussis) and bioterrorism (e.g., anthrax). NC DETECT has since grown to incorporate ED visit data from 98% of 24/7 acute care hospital EDs in the state of North Carolina and has developed and implemented many innovative surveillance tools, including the Emergency Medicine Text Processor (EMT-P) for ED chief complaint data and research-based syndrome definitions.	./cache/cord-016528-j7lflryj.txt	./txt/cord-016528-j7lflryj.txt