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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
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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, …