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Return to Public Health- Undeliverable letters of Communicable Disease Patients
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Preventing communicable disease spread is a primary objective for public health (PH). Reaching contagious people in a timely manner is essential to limit disease spread. Notifying patients of their infectious status also serves as an official… read more… We examined communicable disease cases with undelivered mail to ascertain failure causes and rates. Objective … We examined communicable disease cases with undelivered mail to ascertain failure causes and rates. Objective … -
Clinical Versus Public Health Perceptions of Notifiable Disease Reporting Burden
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The importance transmitting clinical information to public health for disease surveillance is well-documented. Conventional reporting processes require health care providers to complete paper-based notifiable condition reports which are transmitted… read more… condition reports which are transmitted by fax and mail to public health agencies. These processes result in … condition reports which are transmitted by fax and mail to public health agencies. These processes result in … -
Collaborative development of use cases for geospatially enabling a health information exchange
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Given the clear relationship between spatial contexts and health, the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics (ICEPHI) aims to serve both the needs of public health researchers and practitioners by… read more… School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA E-mail: kfrederi@iupui.edu Objective This presentation … -
An Evaluation of Electronic Laboratory Data Quality and a Health Information Exchange
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Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) was demonstrated just over a decade ago to be an effective method to improve the timeliness of reporting as well as the number of reports submitted to public health agencies. The quality of data (inc.… read more… Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons; 2007. *Brian Dixon E-mail: bdixon@regenstrief.org (page number not for citation …