Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 274-279, March 2010

Health Information Exchange, Biosurveillance Efforts, and Emergency Department Crowding During the Spring 2009 H1N1 Outbreak in New York City

  • Jason S. Shapiro, MD, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • Center for Biomedical Informatics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
    • New York Clinical Information Exchange, New York, NY
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for correspondence: Jason S. Shapiro, MD, MA, Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1429, New York, NY 10029-6574; 212-659-1445, fax 212-426-1946
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  • Nicholas Genes, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • Gilad Kuperman, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
    • Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY
    • New York Clinical Information Exchange, New York, NY
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  • Kevin Chason, DO

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
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  • The New York Clinical Information Exchange (NYCLIX) Clinical Advisory Committee H1N1 Working Group

      Affiliations

    • All NYCLIX Clinical Advisory Committee H1N1 Working Group members are listed in the Appendix.
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  • Lynne D. Richardson, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

Received 6 November 2009; accepted 30 November 2009. published online 18 January 2010.

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 Supervising editor: Donald M. Yealy, MD

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement. Dr. Shapiro was supported in part by a grant from the National Library of Medicine (4 R00 LM009556-03). Dr. Genes was supported by a grant from the New York State Empire Clinical Research Investigators Program (ECRIP-7002024H).

 Reprints not available from the authors.

 Publication date: Available online January 15, 2010.

PII: S0196-0644(09)01800-9

doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.11.026

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 274-279, March 2010

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