Journal article
Electronic health record - public health (EHR-PH) system prototype for interoperability in 21st century healthcare systems.
Information exchange- enabled by computable interoperability- is the key to many of the initiatives underway including the development of Regional Health Information Exchanges- Regional Health Information Organizations- and the National Health Information Network. These initiatives must include public health as a full partner in the emerging transformation of our nation's healthcare system through the adoption and use of information technology. An electronic health record - public health (EHR-PH)system prototype was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of electronic data transfer from a health care provider- i.e. hospital or ambulatory care settings- to multiple customized public health systems which include a Newborn Metabolic Screening Registry- a Newborn Hearing Screening Registry- an Immunization Registry and a Communicable Disease Registry- using HL7 messaging standards. Our EHR-PH system prototype can be considered a distributed EHR-based RHIE/RHIO model - a principal element for a potential technic
Authors
Languages
- English
Publication year
2005
Journal
AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
Type
Journal article
Categories
- Data
Tags
- ICT
