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Integrated Health Information Systems
phone: (404) 639-7860
fax: (404) 639-7770

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30333
U.S.A
(404) 639-3311

Lab Reporting (ELR)

Reports & Recommendations

•	Electronic Reporting of Lab Information for Public Health (1999) (136 KB) Report and recommendations from the January 7-8, 1999 meeting sponsored by the CDC, APHL, CSTE, and ASTHO.
•	Electronic Reporting for Lab Data for Pubilc Health (1997) (510 KB) Report and recommendations from the March 24-5, 1997 meeting sponsored by the CSTE, ASTPHLD, and CDC.

Specifications

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HL7 Specifications

(464 KB)
Proposed standard specification for implementing electronic communication of reportable information from laboratories to public health agencies using Health Level 7, a national standard for sharing health data. The specification recommends the use of standard codes for tests (LOINC) and results (SNOMED).

Vocabularies

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Condition to LOINC Mapping

(402 KB)
A spreadsheet of reportable conditions and the LOINC test codes that indicate them.

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Organism List to Organism Mapping (SNOMED)

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A spreadsheet of reportable conditions and the SNOMED result codes used to describe the reportable laboratory findings. (This document includes terms and term codes from the SNOMED work of medical nomenclature, a copyrighted work of the College of American Pathologist (CAP). 1997 College of American Pathologists. SNOMED terms and term codes are used in this document with the permission of the CAP. They may not, however, be copied or otherwise used without a written license from the CAP.)

•	Association for Public Health Laboratories
•	Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (LOINC)
•	Systemized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine (SNOMED)
•	Health Level 7 (HL7)



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