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Leveraging public health's participation in a Health Information Exchange to improve communicable disease reporting

Author(s) -

Ian Painter,

Debra Revere,

P. Joseph Gibson,

Janet Baseman

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

online journal of public health informatics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1947-2579

DOI - 10.5210/ojphi.v9i2.8001

Subject(s) - public health , public health surveillance , medicine , health information exchange , receipt , population , communicable disease , health care , population health , agency (philosophy) , family medicine , environmental health , computer science , nursing , health information , world wide web , political science , philosophy , epistemology , law

Use of pre-populated forms significantly decreased the time it took for the local public health agency to begin documenting and closing chlamydia case investigations. Thoughtful use of electronic health data for case reporting may decrease the per-case workload of public health agencies, and improve the timeliness of information about the pattern and spread of disease.

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