Epidemiological Analysis and Early Warning of Disease Outbreaks by Automated Reading and Mining of Pre-Hospital Care Reports

这笔小额的探索性拨款将研究在与紧急医疗服务有关的院前入院时使用光学字符识别(OCR)进行手写。当这些信息以数字形式输入后，就可以查询和访问这些信息，以进行各种形式的分析。用于识别和跟踪疾病的流行病学分析将是一个重要的领域，因为在入院后迅速获得统计数据是至关重要的。纽约的几个政府机构将参与其中，包括纽约州警察局。健康之家。

This small exploratory grant will examine the use of optical character recognition (OCR) for handwriting in pre-hospital admission related to emergency medical services. When such information is put into digital form, it can be queried and accessed for various forms of analysis.Epidemiological analysis for identification and tracking of diseases will be one area of interest where statistical data available quickly after hospital admission is critical. Several government agencies in New York will participate, including the New York State Dept. of Health.