Brian E. Dixon
Research Scientist
Centre for biomedical informatics
Regenstrief Institute
United States of America
Biography
His recent work has involved leveraging health information exchange (HIE) to enable secondary use of clinical and administrative data to improve public health surveillance, continuity of care for veterans, the determination of disability, and clinical decision support.
Research Interest
His research focuses on developing and evaluating innovative technologies and processes for managing knowledge regarding individual patients and populations
Publications
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Revere D, Hills RH, Dixon BE, Gibson PJ, Grannis SJ (2017) Notifiable condition reporting practices: implications for public health agency participation in a health information exchange. BMC Public Health 17: 247.
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Kasthurirathne SN, Dixon BE, Gichoya J, Xu H, Xia Y, et al (2017) Toward better public health reporting using existing off the shelf approaches: The value of medical dictionaries in automated cancer detection using plain text medical data. J Biomed Inform 69: 160-176.
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Dixon BE, Zhang Z, Lai PTS, Kirbiyik U, Williams J et al (2017) Completeness and timeliness of notifiable disease reporting: a comparison of laboratory and provider reports submitted to a large county health department. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 17:87
