CDC News and Resources for Healthcare

CDC Awards Over $8M to Support Public Health, EHR Implementation

December 19, 2022 - The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) has been awarded more than $8 million through a CDC grant to build up public health infrastructure, starting with an EHR implementation. The grant was awarded on December 1, 2022, as part of a $3.2B federal funding effort to assist state, local, and territorial jurisdictions across the United States in...

Regenstrief Influenza Study Aims to Boost Public Health with HIE Data

October 21, 2022 by Hannah Nelson

Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana Department of Health are collaborating on a public health surveillance pilot study to provide in-depth analysis of the spread of Influenza in Indiana using health...

Combatting the Opioid Crisis Through PDMP EHR Integrations

August 29, 2022 by Hannah Nelson

As the drug overdose crisis continues to grow, an interactive tool from CDC and ONC aims to improve opioid prescribing by helping support Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) EHR...

How Public Health Data Reporting Automation Supports Patient-Centered Care

June 23, 2022 by Hannah Nelson

When done manually, public health data reporting can take up a significant chunk of time. Dialysis clinics in a federal COVID-19 vaccine program have experienced that first-hand. Once vaccines arrive at the clinics, providers administer...

Assessing the Future of Public Health Data Exchange, Interoperability

September 28, 2021 by Hannah Nelson

As COVID-19 continues to underscore the need for an enhanced health interoperability infrastructure, a panel of past health IT coordinators and the current ONC leader discussed the future of public...

ONC, CDC Envision Public Health IT Infrastructure of the Future

September 27, 2021 by Hannah Nelson

CDC and ONC are collaborating on public health IT infrastructure and standards to promote interoperability after COVID-19 highlighted flaws in public health data exchange, ONC lead Micky Tripathi, MD,...

CDC Launches Public Health Data Exchange Interoperability Center

August 19, 2021 by Hannah Nelson

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced a new center that aims to accelerate public health data exchange interoperability to support public health forecasting. Once...