Progress in Increasing Electronic Reporting of Laboratory Results to Public Health Agencies — United States, 2013

Electronic reporting of laboratory results to public health agencies can improve public health surveillance for reportable diseases and conditions by making reporting more timely and complete. Since 2010, CDC has provided funding to 57 state, local, and territorial health departments through the Epi...

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Published in:MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report 2013-09, Vol.62 (38), p.797-799
Main Authors: Turner, Kathryn, Hamilton, Janet, Hall, C. Jason, Pinner, Robert W, Gallagher, Kathy, Conn, Laura
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical Laboratory Information Systems - organization & administration
Disease
Disease information
Electronic health records
Epidemiology
Funding
Humans
Infectious diseases
Jurisdiction
Laboratories
Mandatory Reporting
Notifiable diseases
Population Surveillance - methods
Public health
Public Health Administration
Reporting standards
Surveillance
Territories
United States
Vendors
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Summary:Electronic reporting of laboratory results to public health agencies can improve public health surveillance for reportable diseases and conditions by making reporting more timely and complete. Since 2010, CDC has provided funding to 57 state, local, and territorial health departments through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases cooperative agreement to assist with improving electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) from clinical and public health laboratories to public health agencies. As part of this agreement, CDC and state and large local health departments are collaborating to monitor ELR implementation in the United States by developing data from each jurisdiction regarding total reporting laboratories, laboratories sending ELR by disease category and message format, and the number of ELR laboratory reports compared with the total number of laboratory reports. At the end of July 2013, 54 of the 57 jurisdictions were receiving at least some laboratory reports through ELR, and approximately 62% of 20 million laboratory reports were being received electronically, compared with 54% in 2012. Continued progress will require collaboration between clinical laboratories, laboratory information management system (LIMS) vendors, and public health agencies.
ISSN:0149-2195
1545-861X