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Local Health Departments' Partners And Challenges In Electronic Exchange Of Health Information, Gulzar H. Shah, Joshua Vest, Kay Lovelace, J. Mac Mccullough
Local Health Departments' Partners And Challenges In Electronic Exchange Of Health Information, Gulzar H. Shah, Joshua Vest, Kay Lovelace, J. Mac Mccullough
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Background: Unprecedented amounts of data are produced by the health care and other sectors, presenting opportunities for local health departments (LHDs) to access these data. LHDs will need to participate in health information exchange (HIE) with a number of partners in order to benefit from these data resources. LHDs' participation in HIEs with specific partners has not been studied.
Objectives: To describe the level of and challenges in LHD participation in HIE with other partners, and variation by LHD population size and governance type.
Data and Methods: This research uses data from the 2015 Informatics Capacity and Needs Assessment Survey, …
Interoperability Of Information Systems Managed And Used By The Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Huabin Luo, Ravneet Kaur
Interoperability Of Information Systems Managed And Used By The Local Health Departments, Gulzar H. Shah, Jonathon P. Leider, Huabin Luo, Ravneet Kaur
Health Policy and Management Faculty Publications
Background: In the post-Affordable Care Act era marked by interorganizational collaborations and availability of large amounts of electronic data from other community partners, it is imperative to assess the interoperability of information systems used by the local health departments (LHDs).
Objectives: To describe the level of interoperability of LHD information systems and identify factors associated with lack of interoperability.
Data and Methods: This mixed-methods research uses data from the 2015 Informatics Capacity and Needs Assessment Survey, with a target population of all LHDs in the United States. A representative sample of 650 LHDs was drawn using a stratified random sampling …