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Surveillance of Laboratory-confirmed Influenza Hospitalizations Using a Health Information Exchange
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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 …