We analyzed 8925 patient encounter records entered into the EMR between January 18 and February 22, 2010. Of those records, 4612 (51.8%) were coded as female, 3995 (44.8%) as male and 303 (3.4%) were not specified. Additionally, 1444 (16.2%) of the encounters were coded as less than 6 years old, 1638 (18.3%) were coded as 6Á18 years old, 4352 (48.8%) were coded as 19Á49 years old, 1004 (11.2%) were coded as 50Á65 years old, 283 (3.2%) were coded as more than 65 years old and 204 (2.3%) were not specified. Mean age was 27.1 (SD 019.1) years with a minimum of 1 day and a maximum of 100 years. Additionally, 6575 (75.1%) records were coded as nonurgent, 1889 (21.6%) as urgent and 295 (3.3%) as emergent. Daily surveillance of the records resulted in the identification many of suspected or confirmed symptom and disease occurrences. They included 8 cases of chicken pox/herpes zoster, 46 cases of conjunctivitis, 1 case of hemorrhagic fever, 23 guns shots wounds, 15 cases of malaria, 1 case of measles, 3 cases of meningitis, 2 cases of mumps, 53 cases of acariasis (including scabies), 1 case of typhus, 3 cases of tetanus, 3 cases of tuberculosis and 7 cases of pneumonia. We also detected 714 instances of fever and 550 instances of diarrhea.