A Messaging Standard for Environmental Inspections: Is It Time?

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• Personal Author:
  Callahan T ; Flynn E ; Mitchell CS
• Description:
  Environmental health (EH) services in the United States lag behind other areas of public health and health care with respect to information system interoperability and data sharing. This is partly due to an absence of well-defined use cases, the lack of direct economic drivers and resources to improve, the multiple jurisdictional elements that govern EH services across the United States, and no central organization to drive modernization of EH data. We summarize the status of EH information systems; argue for greater interoperability, including use cases for a messaging standard for environmental inspections; and present recommendations to better align EH services and data modernization efforts currently underway in other areas of public health. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Promotion Occupational Health Public Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Author Keywords: Environmental Health Data Standards Environmental Health Health Communications Health Services Information Systems Inspections Messaging Public Health Public Health Informatics
• ISSN:
  1067-5027
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Georgia ; Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  31
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20069245
• Citation:
  J Am Med Inform Assoc 2024 Apr; 31(4):1042-1046
• Contact Point Address:
  Clifford S. Mitchell, MS, MD, MPH, Environmental Health Bureau, Prevention and Health Promotion Administration, Maryland Department of Health, 201 W. Preston Street, Room 327, Baltimore, MD
• Email:
  cliff.mitchell@maryland.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2024
• Performing Organization:
  Maryland State Department of Health, Baltimore
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20160701
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:98c8a96e953badc6c447ceeee3b1ae9afc69d8f87ce48ee4f4afd4541bf04f01401966e95f1198f29ff1231efba9176305abb7aec22213bd4ec74011a6f5f7fe
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/207754/cdc_207754_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 439.43 KB ]