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Health IT meaningful use: how the EHR certification may improve the electronic laboratory reporting (ELR)
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) brought significant incentives to providers for implementing certified EHR technologies. It specifically requires utilization of certified electronic health records (EHRs) for electronic exchange of… read more… and the variable content and format of ELR messages. The MU is a new factor that may foster ELR technologies through implementation … of Stage 1 meaningful use (MU) health IT certification (MUC), on development of national electronic laboratory … Health IT meaningful use: how the EHR certification may improve the electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) N … -
Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to the BioSense System, 2006-2007
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Biosurveillance systems typically receive free- text chief complaint and coded diagnosis data, however this data has limited specificity for notifiable disease surveillance. The Biosense System receives chief complaint and/or diagnosis data from… read more… a Category B bioterrorist agent. Objective To describe visits reported from BioSense hospitals with non-typhoidal … Visits with Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections Reported to … or sub-syndrome). Laboratory results were reported for 70 patients with findings of nontyphoidal Salmonella … -
Public Health (PH) Preparedness: Improving Data Exchange for Monitoring PH Threats through Content Standardization
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Effective PH information exchange depends on standardized data to ensure system-to-system interoperability and is a critical component of preparedness and response. The Common Ground Preparedness Framework (CGPF) was developed through a three-year… read more… monitor, investigate, intervene and recover. The CGPF may be used to prioritize standardization … and identified any gaps in the standards. This assessment may help in better understanding content standardization for … monitor, investigate, intervene and recover. The CGPF may be used to prioritize standardization … -
Improving quality and interoperability of public health messaging guides: CDC messaging quality framework
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The HL7 messaging standard, version two that was implemented by most vendors and public health agencies did not resolve all systems’ interoperability problems. Design and tool implementation for automated machine-testing … read more… implementation for automated machine-testing messages may resolve many of those problems. This task also has … implementation for automated machine-testing messages may resolve many of those problems. This task also has … implementation for automated machine-testing messages may resolve many of those problems. This task also has … -
S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative- Building the Future of Harmonized Biosurveillance Systems
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) initiated a broad range of national implementation activities. In order to support the critical activities of meaningful use (MU), ONC established the S&I Framework. In the beginning of 2011 the… read more… to support the critical activities of meaningful use (MU), ONC established the S&I Framework. In the beginning of … to support the critical activities of meaningful use (MU), ONC established the S&I Framework. In the beginning of … ehtj11115 ehtj11120 ehtj11024 ehtj11060 ehtj11110 26-50 ehtj11034 ehtj11198 ehtj11174 ehtj11048 ehtj11154 … -
S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance
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The S&I Framework is an Office of National Coordinator (ONC) initiative designed to support individual working groups who focus on a specific interoperability challenge. One of these working groups within the S&I Framework is the PHRI, which… read more… of the initiative as well as describe how the initiative may affect a standard language for biosurveillance … of the initiative as well as describe how the initiative may affect a standard language for biosurveillance … -
An Efficient Approach to Map LOINC Concepts to Notifiable Conditions
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The objective of this project was to develop an efficient method to map Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC) to notifiable conditions to accommodate future changes in standard laboratory test codes.… (version 2.12) to notifiable conditions were produced in May 2004. The data in the tables is based on three standard … which included 11,972 new terms that had been added since May 2004. Also, 6,735 terms were retired from LOINC since May 2004. Therefore, an efficient method to add new concepts …