Inclusion of Drinking Water Source and Testing Questions Into Electronic Medical Records: Advancing Environmental Medicine and Public Health Outreach in New Jersey.

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• Alternative Title:
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP, 2025, v. 30, no. 4: Inclusion of Drinking Water Source and Testing Questions Into Electronic Medical Records: Advancing Environmental Medicine and Public Health Outreach in New Jersey.
• Journal Article:
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP
• Personal Author:
  Flanagan, Sara V. ; Braman, Stuart ; Puelle, Rose ; Gleason, Jessie A. ; Spayd, Steven E. ; Navas-Acien, Ana ; Chillrud, Steve
• Description:
  Chronic arsenic exposure is associated with adverse health outcomes, and early life exposure is particularly damaging. Households with pregnant people and young children drinking from unregulated wells in arsenic-prevalent regions are therefore a public health priority for outreach and intervention. A partnership between Columbia University, New Jersey government partners, and Hunterdon Healthcare has informed Hunterdon County residents of the risks faced from drinking arsenic-contaminated water and offered free well testing through a practice-based water test kit distribution and an online patient portal outreach. Encouraged by those successes, Hunterdon Healthcare incorporated questions about drinking water source and arsenic testing history into the electronic medical record (EMR) template used by most primary care practices in Hunterdon County. The new EMR fields allow for additional targeting of risk-based outreach and water test kit distribution, offering promising new opportunities for public health and environmental medicine outreach, surveillance, and research.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • Electronic Health Records
  • Drinking Water
  • Public Health
  • Arsenic
  • Environmental Exposure
• Keywords:
  • private well
  • domestic well
  • water testing
  • drinking water
  • arsenic
  • healthcare providers
  • environmental medicine
  • public health outreach
  • environmental public health
• Source:
  Journal of Public Health Management and Practice: JPHMP, 2025, v. 30, no. 4
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1097/PHH.0000000000001968
• ISSN:
  1078-4659 ; 1550-5022
• Pubmed ID:
  38833669
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC11920971
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  P30 ES009089/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P42 ES010349/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; P42 ES033719/ES/NIEHS NIH HHSUnited States/ ; UE2 EH001326/EH/NCEH CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey
• Pages in Document:
  E184-E187 (7 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  30
• Issue:
  4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/262091/cdc_262091_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 102.02 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c22b021e7cba9ac2d313636e5af6df9df7c91d2c6a865f81fff23f6e7090152b1f66fe9df3d7de04151d3c773fb3dea7238b6795cf49b1123bc656efda906e0f