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  • Using Health Information Exchange to Improve Use of Prescription Monitoring Data

    Content Type: Abstract

    Washington State experienced a five-fold increase in deaths from unintentional drug overdoses between 1998 and 2014. The PMP collects data on controlled substances prescribed to patients and makes the data available to healthcare providers, giving… read more
    … linkage works through the Health Information Exchange (HIE) to make PMP data available to providers via EHRs. The HIE facilitates electronic communication of patient … problem is the Emergency Department Information Exchange (EDIE), a web-based technology that specifically connects …
  • Surveillance of Laboratory-confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Health Information Exchange

    Content Type: Abstract

    During the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) temporarily made lab-confirmed influenza hospitalizations reportable. Reporting of influenza hospitalizations is resource intensive for hospitals and local… read more
    … being explored. A Regional Health Information Exchange (HIE) in Washington currently sends DOH ICD9 coded discharge … and microbiology laboratory orders and results for all patients admitted to 17 hospitals throughout Washington, … four of the five hospitals in Spokane County. The HIE hospitalization and laboratory data may be a valuable …
  • Syndromic Surveillance Information Collection - Geocodes for Urban to Rural Mixed Environments: SSIC-Geo

    Content Type: Abstract

    The University of Washington has been working since 2000 with partners in Washington State to advance bioterrorism (BT) detection and preparedness. This project collects data on patients presenting with influenza-like … read more
    … epidemiologists use a web-based interface to view de-identified data and use a version of CDC’s EARS disease … epidemiologists use a web-based interface to view de-identified data and use a version of CDC’s EARS disease … the use of geocoded data. We will discuss pros and cons of this approach. Results: The GIS encoding module is …
  • Notes on MU Stage 3 NPRM Informatics

    Content Type: Report

    Notes on Meaningful Use stage 3 Notice of Public Rule Making, provided by Bryant Thomas Karras
    … Stage III will start Jan 1, 2017 and becomes required for all in 2018.     Proposed Wa  DOH  OSHO-­‐Informatics …  in  the  federal  register   March  30,  comments  due  60  days  later  (May  29?)  As  with  Stages  1  and … immunization histories from an immunization registry (i.e. WSIISàEHR)   § Use  registry  CDSi,  forecasting, …