Slide Presentation of the 2007 Annual Meeting of AHRQ

8. Public Health Investigation

• Cases reported through other means (e.g., laboratory reporting)
• "shoe leather" epidemiology can be time consuming and labor intensive
• Rapid investigation feasible ("armchair")
• Public health authorization to receive clinical data

A graphic depicts how individual care providers contact a data sources. Provider asks for and receives records (This step is highlighted with a large number 8). Data sources send records to provider through message transfer.

Notes:

"etch server model"