Proposed Broad Charge for the Expanded Scope Biosurveillance Workgroup

PROPOSED BROAD CHARGE FOR EXPANDED SCOPE

Workgroup Name:

POPULATION HEALTH AND CLINICAL CARE CONNECTIONS

Broad Charge for the Expanded Scope:

Make recommendations to the Community thatfacilitate the flow of reliable health informationamong population health and clinical caresystems necessaryto protect and improve the public's health.

As reference - Charges for current Biosurveillance Workgroup:

• Broad Charge for the Workgroup: Make recommendations to the Community to implement the informational tools and business operations to support real-time nationwide public health event monitoring and rapid response management across public health and care delivery communities and other authorized government agencies.

• 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.

Presentation at January 23, 2007 AHIC Meeting