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Disease surveillance needs to include EHRs, social media, IOM says

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) has proposed that the federal government take the lead in organizing a national surveillance system to track trends in chronic health conditions, focusing primarily on

Public health IT still getting the short end of the stick

From the inception of the government's health IT program in 2004, one of its major goals has been to increase the country's emergency preparedness and the ability of public health agencies to monitor