Accuracy of administrative data for infection surveillance

"If hospitals and policymakers choose to rely on administrative data for HAI surveillance, continued improvements to existing algorithms and their robust validation are imperative."

Accuracy of administrative data for surveillance of healthcare-associated infections: a systematic review
MSM van Mourik, PJ van Duijn, KGM Moons, MJM Bonten, GM Lee
BMJ Open, 2015, 5:e008424

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Privacy of health records

"People are often assumed to support either privacy or security, as if the choice is between one or the other. However, RAND Europe has collected evidence as part of the largest ever surveys of citizens’ views across Europe on security, surveillance and privacy issues, and the results point to the general public having a much more nuanced understanding of those issues. This brief presents people’s preferences in the context of storage of electronic health records."

Privacy of health records: Europeans' preferences on electronic health data storage and sharing
S Patil, et al.
RAND Europe
August 2015

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Using social media and Internet data for public health surveillance

"More recently, ubiquitous and unstandardized data collected from the Internet have been used to gain insight into emerging disease events."

Using social media and Internet data for public health surveillance: the importance of talking
DM Hartley
The Milbank Quarterly, 2014, 92(1):34-39

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