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Brief Summary
Brief Summary: Over the last 6 years, HHS and the healthcare provider community have made extensive investments of time and money, implementing new Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) to digitize the care process and to make that information available electronically both inside and outside their health enterprise. It is now time to leverage that investment to dramatically reduce costs and increase the timeliness and quality of electronic reporting from Providers to Public Health. This presentation will review the goals and standards that HHS has set in Meaningful Use 3 – Objective 8 for hospitals and physicians to submit information electronically to the States and Territories around immunization, syndromic surveillance, case reporting, registry reporting, and reportable laboratory results. We will provide an overview of the issues that Public Health organizations face as they try to facilitate adoption, and the strategies they are adopting to accelerate the implementation of these healthcare information exchange (HIE) capabilities to gain the benefits that they can provide to Public Health.