title: Evaluation of HL7 v2.5.1 electronic case reports transmitted from a healthcare enterprise to public health.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
authors.forename: Deepthi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rajeev
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Staes
authors.forename: R Scott
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Evans
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mottice
authors.forename: Ilene
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Risk
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rolfs
mesh_terms: D018563:Disease Notification / Q000379:methods*; D057286:Electronic Health Records; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D057208:Health Level Seven; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D010209:Paper; D062486:Public Health Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors; D014589:Utah