Project
Assessment of electronic health records for infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control
Dec 10, 2021
Final Mapping Exercise Report
Published in: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control website (November 2021). doi: 10.2900/21239
Posted on RAND.org on December 01, 2021
The use of electronic health records (EHR) for infectious disease surveillance purposes has the potential to reduce the burden and improve the timeliness and completeness of reporting infectious disease data. The focus of the study is the degree of EHR implementation, characteristics of the data that is held on population members, and the ability to share these data. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new focus to the need for rapid turn-around clinical information that can be aggregated at a national and international level.
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