Using automated medical records for rapid identification of illness syndromes (syndromic surveillance): the example of lower respiratory infection

Ross Lazarus ^1,2 , Ken P Kleinman ³ , Inna Dashevsky³ , Alfred DeMaria ⁴ and Richard Platt MD^1,3

¹  Chanming Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

²  Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

³  Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA, USA

⁴  Bureau of Communicable Disease Control, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA