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NYC Macroscope is a population health surveillance system that uses EHRs to track conditions managed by primary care practices that are important to public health. . It is another reminder of the potential of connected EHRs to create a learning health system.
Healthcare Informatics has written several articles highlighting the valuable work of the Primary Care Information Project (PCIP), which has created a data reporting and physician alert infrastructure, grounded in an electronic hub platform (co-developed with eClinicalWorks). It allows the New York City Department of Health to gather information on the prevalence of both acute disease outbreaks and of levels of chronic disease in different neighborhoods across New York City.
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