Population Health and Clinical Care Connections Workgroup

At its November 29, 2005, meeting, the American Health Information Community (the Community) recommended the formation of a workgroup on biosurveillance. The meetings of this Workgroup will be public and all documents discussed will be made available to the public.

At the January 23, 2007, Community meeting, the name of the Biosurveillance Workgroup was changed to Population Health and Clinical Care Connections Workgroup. At the same time, the broad charge was expanded to meet the goals of the restructured workgroup.

The revised Broad Charge for the Workgroup:

Make recommendations to the Community to facilitate the flow of reliable health information among population health and clinical care systems necessary to protect and improve the public’s health.

The Community further recommended that this workgroup develop a plan to realize a specific charge (transmitting certain data from health care providers to public health systems) within one year, which is visible to the American public and works towards a broader charge (facilitating the flow of reliable health information among population health and clinical care systems to protect and improve the public’s health) over time.

Specific Charge for the Workgroup:

Make recommendations to the Community so that within one year, essential ambulatory care and emergency department visit, utilization, and lab result data from electronically enabled health care delivery and public health systems can be transmitted in standardized and anonymized format to authorized public health agencies within 24 hours.

Workgroup Member List:

Upcoming Meeting of the Population Health and Clinical Care Connections Workgroup:

• This workgroup has concluded. there are no more meetings scheduled.