Application development
- Patient data collection for chronic disease management
Electronic data capture
Feasibility study
Clinical decision support
Guideline compliance
- Web design and content for unknown causes of death/ unusual infections
- Data specifications/requirements gathering for the West Nile Virus
- Public Health links website
Taxonomy development
User interface design
Public Health information resource
- Web architecture and content development for the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)
Overlap with national policy development
Sub-site on evolving evidence/impact of HIT on healthcare (e.g. medical errors, patient safety and costs)
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Search technology
- Search engine evaluation
Organizational culture, content and technology assessment
Information retrieval capabilitiest
Revision of search interface and query features
Development of metatagging process for data elements
- Log file analysis
Consumer search preferences
Revision of hot topics
Common misspellings
Trending analysis
- Search engine model development
Dynamic taxonomy creation based on consumer queries
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Surveillance tools
- Transforming HL7 free-text messages into ICD-9-CM codes for reporting
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Public Health thesaurus
- Evaluation of commercial tools for taxonomy and content development
- Addition of bioterrorism concepts
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