IMPROVING THE QUALITY AND COMPLETENESS OF ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD DATA USED IN SYNDROMIC SURVEILLANCE : Final Report

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• Personal Author:
  Massoudi, Barbara L.
• Corporate Authors:
  Thought Bridge. ; Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Electronic health records (EHRs) improve public and population health outcomes by efficiently collecting health information to be shared across health care organizations and public health agencies. Unfortunately, there is great variability among EHR systems in data accuracy and completeness, data element definitions, and standards, which results in a lack of interoperability and data harmonization across systems. The purpose of this report is to summarize identified areas for EHR data quality improvement for syndromic surveillance, and to provide recommendations on how state, territorial, local, and tribal health departments and EHR vendor communities can collaborate to address.
  
  This report describes the work performed on the Improving the Quality and Completeness of EHR Data Used in Syndromic Surveillance project for the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) by Thought Bridge, LLC, under the direction of Barbara L. Massoudi, MPH, PhD. The Thought Bridge team led data collection, analysis and solution design activities described in this report during the project period of performance, October 1, 2019 – July 31, 2020. This work was performed under CSTE and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – Cooperative Agreement number 1 NU38OT000297-01-00. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of CDC.
  
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• Subjects:
  Communicable Diseases/epidemiology Data Collection Disease Notification/methods Electronic Health Records Epidemiologic Methods Public Health Surveillance Sentinel Surveillance
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement number 1 NU38OT000297-01-00
• Pages in Document:
  30 numbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:f43ce43cb75ca9bc00c6aeb027cd2393e8554e2c1186ab767874b0f16a811fa4
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/148389/cdc_148389_DS1.pdf
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