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Using Big Healthcare Data to Supplement Chikungunya Surveillance in the U.S.

Author(s) -

Joel Greenspan,

Silvia Valkova

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v7i1.5744

Subject(s) - chikungunya , reimbursement , health care , medicine , big data , disease surveillance , chikungunya fever , family medicine , medical emergency , data science , disease , computer science , virology , data mining , dengue fever , pathology , political science , law

Chikungunya is not a U.S. nationally notifiable disease and tracking travel-associated and locally acquired cases is currently dependent on voluntary reporting via ArboNET. Electronic healthcare reimbursement claims covering a large proportion of visits to providers' offices may help overcome some of the limitations of ArboNET in documenting timing, occurrence, and spread of Chikungunya in the U.S.

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