Accelerating Public Health Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchanges: An Annotated Bibliography

Authors

  • Debra Revere Center for Public Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
  • Kevin Stevens Marion County Health Department, Indiana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v2i2.3212

Abstract

In 2008, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded contracts to health information exchanges in Indiana, New York and Washington/Idaho to accelerate public health situational awareness. Awardees in each state have disseminated their findings and lessons at professional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. The dissemination formats ranged from papers, oral presentations, posters, panels and demonstrations at interoperability showcases. With a focus on health information exchange and public health, topics included biosurveillance, electronic laboratory reporting, broadcast messaging, and notifiable disease surveillance. Each presentation is summarized in this bibliography, and the authors affiliated with each site are highlighted. Keywords: biosurveillance, situational awareness, electronic laboratory reporting, health information exchange, notifiable diseases

Author Biographies

Debra Revere, Center for Public Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Debra Revere, MLIS, MA, is Associate Director of the UW Clinical Informatics Research Group. Ms. Revere also holds a Clinical Faculty appointment in the UW Department of Health Services and, in her role of Research Scientist, has led several biomedical informatics investigations. Ms. Revere?s research interests include information needs of public health practice; development of tools to provide access to evidence-based resources and support decision-making in clinical and public health settings; characteristics of population-based data sources (e.g. surveillance systems, immunization registries); public health information exchange; and the application of qualitative data analysis methods to better understand workflow processes in public health and clinical environments.

Kevin Stevens, Marion County Health Department, Indiana

Kevin C. Stevens, MPH, MA currently serves dual roles as an epidemiologist with the Marion County Health Department in Indianapolis, Indiana and as the public health informatician at Regenstrief Institute. Mr. Stevens represents MCHD as the local public health partner in the fulfillment of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contract ?Accelerating Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchange? and evaluates the quality and quantity of clinical information sent to public health. For this special issue, Mr. Stevens served as the managing editor by developing the outline, coordinating the paper writing process and managing the paper submissions.

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Published

2010-10-26

How to Cite

Revere, D., & Stevens, K. (2010). Accelerating Public Health Situational Awareness through Health Information Exchanges: An Annotated Bibliography. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v2i2.3212

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