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 in incomplete, error-prone, and tardy information flow. Automated laboratory-based reports are more likely accurate and timely, but lack clinical information and treatment details. Here, we describe the Electronic Support for Public Health (ESP) application, a robust, automated, secure, portable public health detection and messaging system for [...]
Author(s): Lazarus, Ross, Klompas, Michael, Campion, Francis X, McNabb, Scott J N, Hou, Xuanlin, Daniel, James, Haney, Gillian, DeMaria, Alfred, Lenert, Leslie, Platt, Richard
DOI: 10.1197/jamia.M2848