Description
Since 2009, Houston Health Department (HHD) uses an electronic disease surveillance system (Maven) to receive ELRs from reporting facilities in the Houston jurisdiction. Currently, two large hospital systems, a blood bank, two large commercial labs, and two public health labs are sending ELRs to Maven. The overall percentage of disease reports received via ELR was over 50%. We hypothesize that the implementation of ELR has improved the timeliness and completeness of disease surveillance.
Objective
Review 5 years of surveillance data post electronic lab reporting (ELR) implementation and 8 years of data prior to ELR, to evaluate timeliness and completeness of disease surveillance.