AI-Enabled Diagnostic Prediction within Electronic Health Records to Enhance Biosurveillance and Early Outbreak Detection
Goncalves, A. R.; Cadena Pico, J.; Hu, Y.; Schlessinger, D.; Greene, J. D.; O'suilleabhain, L.; Clancy, H.; Vollmer, M.; Liu, V.; Bates, T.; Ray, P.
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Detecting infectious disease outbreaks promptly is crucial for effective public health responses, minimizing transmission, and enabling critical interventions. This study introduces a method that integrates machine learning (ML)-based diagnostic predictions with traditional epidemiological surveillance to enhance biosurveillance systems. Using 4.5 million patient records from 2010 to 2022, ML models were trained to predict, within 24-hour intervals, the likelihood of patients being diagnosed with infectious or unspecified gastrointestinal, respiratory, or neurological diseases. High-confidence predictions were combined with final diagnoses and analyzed using spatiotemporal outbreak detection techniques. Among diseases with five or more outbreaks between 2014 and 2022, 33.3% (41 of 123 outbreaks) were detected earlier, with lead times ranging from 1 to 24 days and an average of 1.33 false positive outbreaks detected annually. This approach demonstrates the potential of integrating ML with conventional methods for faster outbreak detection, provided adequate disease-specific training data is available.
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