Electronic Case Reporting (eCR)

The Ministry of Health of Georgia accepted the Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) as an official disease reporting system in 2012. The Georgian government adopted electronic reporting for both veterinary and human diseases in 2015. We conducted a comparative assessment of progress in the implementation of electronic reporting.

Objective

The objective of this study was to evaluate several aspects of the electronic disease reporting system and its abilities used in Georgia. Also, the study assessed if the system abilities are tailored to the national surveillance requirements. User attitudes (system strength and weaknesses) toward the system was also surveyed.

In South Korea, the NNDSS is organized at three levels: local, provincial, and central. At the local level, physicians report the cased to the Public Health Center (PHC) and PHC conduct control measures. At the provincial level, the PHC reports the cases to the Department of Health (DOH) of the province and DOH obliged to report the cases to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) and feedback of the surveillance data to PHC and physicians. At the central level, the Disease Web Statistics System (http://is.cdc.go.kr/ dstat/index.jsp) provides real-time data on 54 national notifiable infectious diseases.

Although there are variations according to the disease and surveillance step, the KNNDSS generally functions well in terms of timeliness and Yu et al. reported that 89.7% of mumps, one of the most incident contagious disease in South Korea, reported in 15 days after the physician’s notification. To improve the timeliness of feedback at the provincial level, we explored the KNNDSS data and suggested an evidence based duration for publication of the weekly reports, in consideration of reducing the publication schedule.

Objective

This study will explore the timeliness of the Korean National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (KNNDSS) at provincial Level, and suggest a reasonable duration for publication the weekly reports to improve timely feedback of infectious disease surveillance data to physicians and community.

Electronic case reporting (eCR) is defined as the fully or semiautomated generation and electronic transmission of reportable disease case reports from an electronic health record (EHR) system to public health authorities, replacing the historically paper-based process. ECR has been reported to increase the number, accuracy, completeness and timeliness of surveillance case reports. Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) collaborated with Alliance of Chicago (AOC) to develop an application to generate electronic provider reports (ePR) for chlamydia (CT) and gonorrhea (GC) cases from the EHR system managed by AOC and send ePR records to the Illinois National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (I-NEDSS). This application was tested in the EHR database of Health Center A in AOC’s network. It is essential to ensure ePR data are accurate, so that public health receives correct information to take actions if needed. Therefore, evaluation is needed to assess ePR records data quality.

Objective

To describe the evaluation process to assess data quality during development of an electronic case report application, and to describe the evaluation results