S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance

Authors

  • Michael Coletta NACCHO
  • Nikolay Lipskiy CDC
  • David Birnbaum Washington State Department of Health
  • John Abellera CDC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4451

Abstract

Join us as we explore the impact of ONC's Standards & Interoperability Framework Public Health Reporting Initiative (PHRI). PHRI is working to simplify public health reporting and ensure that EHRs are interoperable with public health information systems. PHRI hopes to create a new public health Meaningful Use Stage 3 objective that is common across all program objectives - laying the ground work for public health reporting in the future. This panel will outline progress, challenges, and next steps of PHRI and describe how PHRI may affect the future of a standard language for biosurveillance.

Author Biographies

Michael Coletta, NACCHO

Michael acts as an outreach and communication co-lead for PHRI. He has an extensive background in biosurveillance having worked over the past 15 years building the syndromic surveillance and enhanced surveillance systems currently in place in GA and VA. He also chaired the ISDS committee charged with defining the syndromic surveillance requirements for Meaningful Use Stage 1.

Nikolay Lipskiy, CDC

Nikolay acts as one of the five co-leads of the PHRI and is chair of the data harmonization sub-workgroup of the PHRI. He has an extensive background in data standards, including leading the team at CDC that wrote the syndromic surveillance implementation guide based on the ISDS Meaningful Use Recommendation: Emergency Department and Urgent Care Data.

David Birnbaum, Washington State Department of Health

David is the designated representative to the PHRI for the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' HAI Subcommittee and an adjunct professor in both the University of Victoria School of Health Information Science and the University of British Columbia School of Population & Public Health.

John Abellera, CDC

John has been the steward of PHRI's communicable disease reporting use case based on the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' core data elements. He has extensive experience as an epidemiologist in communicable disease and is a strong advocate for this work.

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Published

2013-03-23

How to Cite

Coletta, M., Lipskiy, N., Birnbaum, D., & Abellera, J. (2013). S&I Public Health Reporting Initiative: Improving Standardization of Surveillance. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v5i1.4451

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2013)

Section

Panel Presentations

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