Public Health

HEALTHeLINK HIE Launches Dashboard for Community Health

March 11, 2024 - HEALTHeLINK, a health information exchange (HIE) serving Western New York, has launched a dashboard to support community health. The HEALTHeWNY Dashboard allows users to search data at a county and zip code level, providing detailed insights into health in the region. The system can also filter data by specific health outcomes, demographics, and...


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by Hannah Nelson

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The use of application programming interfaces (APIs) in healthcare could revolutionize health data exchange interoperability. Put simply, APIs send information back and forth between a user and a website or app. API adoption is common in...

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by Hannah Nelson

EHR data sharing can support near-real-time information access on drug use-related healthcare use to guide clinical and public health responses, according to a study published in Health...

NIH Publishes HL7 FHIR Guide for Maternal Health Data Exchange

by Hannah Nelson

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), part of the  National Institutes of Health (NIH), has published a Health Level Seven International (HL7)...

USVI Governor Signs Agreement for HIE Interoperability Pilot

by Hannah Nelson

The Governor of The United States Virgin Islands (USVI) has signed a “Letter of Intent” with CRISP Shared Services to participate in an interoperability pilot program that will lay the...

Mercy Health Introduces Community Data Hub for Public Health

by Hannah Nelson

Mercy Health has released a Community Health Data Hub to provide public health stakeholders, community organizations, and residents access to county-level health data, according to reporting from The...

Public Health Reporting, Data Sharing Nearly Ubiquitous in Hospitals

by Sarai Rodriguez

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EHR data could help public health officials conduct more precise chronic disease surveillance, according to Brian Dixon, PhD, MPA, interim director of the Regenstrief Institute's Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical...

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by Hannah Nelson

At the 2022 American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) symposium, experts discussed strategies to improve the public health interoperability infrastructure. An article published in JAMIA...

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by Hannah Nelson

The Consortium for State and Regional Interoperability (CSRI), a collection of five nonprofit health information exchange (HIE) organizations, has released a health data utility (HDU) maturity...

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by Sarai Rodriguez

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...

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Pew Charitable Trusts is working to improve health IT infrastructure for data sharing between healthcare providers and state public health agencies. “As COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated, the...

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by Hannah Nelson

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