New Federal Effort to Align Public Health Case Reporting With Meaningful Use

The Center for Disease Control, the Public Health Data Standards Consortium and IBM scientists are further standardizing the exchange and use of public health information to improve healthcare quality and coordination of care, which aligns with meaningful use initiatives.

The current lack of public health electronic reporting standards results in irregular and delayed reports that often create inconsistencies and duplication of efforts when trying to control major health outbreaks. According to the release, CDC, IBM and PHDSC are drawing on insights from structured and unstructured data that currently exist in disparate systems to create templates for public health case reports that could work with electronic health records systems and allow critical information to be easily shared, which would speed response times to public health issues.

The technology is being piloted with public health information systems in Delaware, New York state and San Diego County to create, validate and exchange pilot public health case reports originating from commercial EHR systems or health information exchanges. The new public health report templates could lower cost of compliance for healthcare providers while improving their ability to monitor and respond to infectious diseases.

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