Electronic Support for Public Health: validated case finding and reporting for notifiable diseases using electronic medical data.
Health care providers are legally obliged to report cases of specified diseases to public health authorities, but existing manual, provider-initiated reporting systems generally result in incomplete, error-prone, and tardy information flow. Automated laboratory-based reports are more likely accurate and timely, but lack clinical information and treatment details. Here, we describe the Electronic Support for Public Health (ESP) application, a robust, automated, secure, portable public health detection and messaging system for [...]
Author(s): Lazarus, Ross, Klompas, Michael, Campion, Francis X, McNabb, Scott J N, Hou, Xuanlin, Daniel, James, Haney, Gillian, DeMaria, Alfred, Lenert, Leslie, Platt, Richard
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2848