Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

9. Patient-level Public Health Alerting

• Public Health acts as data source
• ED physician querying HIE could receive patient-specific public health alert (e.g. active TB, sought-for contact)
• Isolation, decreased nosocomial spread
• Early notification back to public health

A graphic depicts how individual care providers contact a data sources. Provider asks for and receives records. Data sources send records to provider (This step is highlighted with a large number 9) through message transfer.

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