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Challenges to public health reporting experienced by non-federal acute care hospitals: 2019
Challenges to public health reporting experienced by non-federal acute care hospitals: 2019
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- ONC data brief
- Author(s):
- Richwine, Chelsea, author
Marshall, Carmelita, author
Jensen, Christian, 1833-1916, author
Patel, Vaishali, author - Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, September 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Information Interoperability
Hospitals
Information Dissemination
Mandatory Reporting
Public Health
Public Health Surveillance
COVID-19
Health Facility Size
State Government
United States
United States. Department of Health and Human Services - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Amidst a global pandemic, the need for efficient exchange of electronic health information between hospitals and public health agencies has never been more critical. To ensure public health agencies have timely and complete data to improve their disease surveillance capabilities, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established policies that require hospitals to meet specific public health objectives as a condition for participation in the Promoting Interoperability (PI) program. These objectives include submission, and in some cases receipt of data, for the purposes of immunization registries, syndromic surveillance reporting, case reporting, and public health registry reporting. To understand the challenges hospitals faced with public health reporting in the year prior to the pandemic, this data brief uses nationally representative survey data from the 2019 American Hospital Association (AHA) Information Technology (IT) supplement to describe the number and types of challenges hospitals experienced when electronically reporting to public health agencies and how these challenges varied by state and hospital characteristics. While new challenges may have emerged or become exacerbated during the pandemic, this analysis identifies potential ongoing barriers to health information exchange among hospitals and public health agencies and provides insights into hospitals' readiness to support key public health activities prior to the pandemic.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (17 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918317681206676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918317681206676