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Article: CDC Selects GE Healthcare to Track H1N1 Flu Activity.
- Article from:
- Vaccine Weekly
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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GE Healthcare, one of the leading providers of healthcare information technology, announced its selection by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide extensive surveillance data for H1N1 and seasonal influenza activity throughout the United States. Every 24 hours, GE Healthcare reports information gathered from its nationwide electronic database of nearly 14 million patient records to help the CDC monitor the spread of the H1N1 virus in near real-time (see also GE Healthcare).
Daily reports upload from GE Healthcare's Medical Quality Improvement Consortium (MQIC), a repository designed with HIPAA-compliance parameters, of anonymous clinical ...