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Public Health Surveillance Using Electronic Health Records: Rising Potential To Advance Public Health, Guthrie S. Birkhead, Michael Klompas, Md Mph, Nirav R. Shah
Public Health Surveillance Using Electronic Health Records: Rising Potential To Advance Public Health, Guthrie S. Birkhead, Michael Klompas, Md Mph, Nirav R. Shah
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Background: Public health surveillance has traditionally relied on manual processes including paper-based reporting by clinicians. The introduction of electronic laboratory reporting increased the efficiency and completeness of infectious disease surveillance but clinical and risk factor data are often still collected manually. The use of electronic health records (EHR) has significant promise to enrich surveillance by collecting these data automatically and by expanding surveillance to chronic diseases (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, obesity). However, the extent of the use of EHRs for public surveillance is not well studied.
Evidence Acquisition: The peer-reviewed medical literature was searched for descriptions of the use of EHRs …
Economic Evaluation Of Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Response In New River Valley: Local Health Department Perspective, Kaja M. Abbas, Nargesalsadat Dorratoltaj, Margaret L. O’Dell, Paige Bordwine, Thomas M. Kerkering, Kerry J. Redican
Economic Evaluation Of Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Response In New River Valley: Local Health Department Perspective, Kaja M. Abbas, Nargesalsadat Dorratoltaj, Margaret L. O’Dell, Paige Bordwine, Thomas M. Kerkering, Kerry J. Redican
Frontiers in Public Health Services and Systems Research
Background: The multi-state fungal meningitis outbreak started in September 2012 in Tennessee. The cause of the outbreak was injection of contaminated lots of methylprednisolone acetate used in epidural spinal injections. Roanoke and New River Valley were the epicenter of this outbreak in Virginia, with two clinical centers having administered the contaminated injections to their patients. New River Health District, in coordination with hospitals, and state and federal agencies, deployed its resources to control the local impact of the outbreak.
Purpose: The objective of this study was to conduct an economic evaluation of the fungal meningitis outbreak response in New River …