About the Authors

Michael Klompas

mklompas@partners.org

Affiliations Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Infection Control Department, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Yosef Khan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Kenneth Kleinman

Affiliation Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

R. Scott Evans

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

James F. Lloyd

Affiliation Department of Medical Informatics, Intermountain Healthcare, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Kurt Stevenson

Affiliation Department of Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Matthew Samore

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Richard Platt

Affiliations Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

for the CDC Prevention Epicenters Program

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Acquisition of data: MK YK SE JL. Funding, administrative support, and study supervision: KS MS RP. Conceived and designed the experiments: MK YK KK SE RP. Analyzed the data: MK KK. Wrote the paper: MK.