Background: Public health reporting is the cornerstone of public health practices that inform
prevention and control strategies. There is a need to leverage advances made in the past to …

Clinicians are required to report selected conditions to public health authorities within a
stipulated amount of time. The current reporting process is mostly paper-based and …

Health care providers are legally obliged to report cases of specified diseases to public
health authorities, but existing manual, provider-initiated reporting systems generally result …

Consensus-based technical guidance for electronic case reporting (eCR) of sexually
transmitted infections was implemented within existing health information technologies to …

For over 100 years, public health authorities have actively tracked the incidence and
distribution of communicable diseases as a first step toward understanding and preventing …

Background Infectious diseases can appear and spread rapidly. Timely information about
disease patterns and trends allows public health agencies to quickly investigate and …

Objectives. Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) reduces the time between communicable
disease diagnosis and case reporting to local health departments (LHDs). However, it also …

Electronic health records (EHRs) contain valuable data for reuse in science, quality
evaluations, and clinical decision support. Because routinely obtained laboratory data are …

Public health surveillance is focused on the detection of acute, chronic, and emerging
threats to the health of the population to direct disease control and prevention efforts. 1 …

Problem To improve the timeliness, efficiency, and effectiveness of occurrence reporting.
Setting Baylor University Medical Center, a 1000-bed tertiary facility, and other components …