Sound Surveillance System

Developing a system to share data may turn out to be one of the biggest—and most complex—goals of the grant. The goal is to create an interoperable disease surveillance system that health care workers on both sides of the border can access. It would provide an alert system and a database with common coding and commonly reported diseases. Though it may sound simple. 

In the United States, there are several computerised healthcare systems, sometimes referred to as multipurpose databases, which have been used for post-marketing surveillance purposes. The best-known include Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, Kaiser-Permanente, Medicaid, Rhode Island and the Saskatchewan database in Canada. ... 

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