News and Articles
Syndromic Surveillance/Early Event Detection

• RedBat Wins Computerworld Laureate Honor, June 2007
  
  
• New RedBat Version 4.0 Surveillance System Aids Hospitals in Containing Possible Disease Outbreaks - Enhancements expand healthcare facilities ability to detect unusual health events, July 13, 2005.
  
  
• Surveillance software helps flag outbreaks
  Dallas Morning News
  
  This article describes the use of RedBat® by a county epidemiologist and infection control department at two HCA Hospitals. RedBat was recently deployed to capture data from emergency department computers. The encrypted data is then transferred to RedBat at the county health department for interpretation and follow up investigation.
  
  
• Chief complaint and discharge diagnosis for syndrome assignment?
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
  March 2003
  
  The article compares the use of chief complaint and discharge diagnosis for syndrome assignment and, in most cases, the two were in agreement. Therefore, Washington DC believes that Chief Complaint analysis is an important aspect of syndromic surveillance.
  
  
• System in New York for Early Warning of Disease Patterns
  New York Times
  April 2003
  
  Another example of a major metropolitan area using Chief Complaint is New York City and their homegrown syndromic surveillance software system. Here is a link from the April 4, 2003 New York Times on their early warning system.
  
  
  

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