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. 2011:2011:1144-52.
Epub 2011 Oct 22.

Evaluation of HL7 v2.5.1 electronic case reports transmitted from a healthcare enterprise to public health

Deepthi Rajeev  1 , Catherine Staes, R Scott Evans, Andrea Price, Mary Hill, Susan Mottice, Ilene Risk, Robert Rolfs
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Evaluation of HL7 v2.5.1 electronic case reports transmitted from a healthcare enterprise to public health

Deepthi Rajeev et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2011.

Abstract

Public health surveillance is necessary to prevent and control communicable and non-communicable diseases. An electronic reporting system using HL7 v2.5.1 was implemented between Intermountain Healthcare and the Utah Department of Health. We conducted prospective and retrospective studies to evaluate the timeliness, completeness of content information, and completeness of the electronic reporting process, and compared these metrics against other reporting entities. The electronic reporting system was more timely than other clinical reporting facilities and included more complete information in initial case reports. During a four month period, the electronic reporting system captured 8% of the cases not reported by the paper-based reporting system but missed 5% of the cases reported by the paper-based reporting system. We believe it would be more efficient for Infection Preventionists at hospitals to use their resources to detect cases not captured by the electronic reporting system instead of manually re-reporting cases already transmitted to public health electronically.

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Figure 1:
Graphical description of the six categories of reporting sources
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Figure 2:
Proportion of Chlamydia reports received at public health reported on the same day as specimen collection, one day after specimen collection, two days after specimen collection, etc for the retrospective study period
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Figure 3:
Distribution of the 584 unique cases reported by the HL7 electronic reporting system and the paper-based reporting system during Oct 21, 2010 – Feb 23, 2011
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