Evaluation of vocabularies for electronic laboratory reporting to public health agencies.
Clinical laboratories and clinicians transmit certain laboratory test results to public health agencies as required by state or local law. Most of these surveillance data are currently received by conventional mail or facsimile transmission. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists, and Association of Public Health Laboratories are preparing to implement surveillance systems that will use existing laboratory information systems to transmit electronic [...]
Author(s): White, M D, Kolar, L M, Steindel, S J
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1999.0060185