Automating Case Reporting of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea to Public Health Authorities in Illinois Clinics: Implementation and Evaluation of Findings.

Background: Chlamydia and gonorrhea cases continue to rise in Illinois, increasing by 16.4% and 70.9% in 2019, respectively, compared with 2015.

Automating Case Reporting of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea to Public Health Authorities in Oregon Clinics.

Background: Optimizing sexually transmitted disease (STD) reporting to state public health authorities is important to reduce incidence and manage outbreaks of STDs. Electronic laboratory reporting (ELR) is the standard through which local clinics report STDs to state public health authority. Electronic case reporting (eCR) is an alternative approach which automates transmission of case reports to public health jurisdictions using electronic health record (EHR) data.

The Childhood Obesity Data Initiative: A Case Study in Implementing Clinical-Community Infrastructure Enhancements to Support Health Services Research and Public Health.

Context: We describe a participatory framework that enhanced and implemented innovative changes to an existing distributed health data network (DHDN) infrastructure to support linkage across sectors and systems. Our processes and lessons learned provide a potential framework for other multidisciplinary infrastructure development projects that engage in a participatory decision-making process.

Program: The Childhood Obesity Data Initiative (CODI) provides a potential framework for local and national stakeholders with public health, clinical, health services research, community intervention, and information technology expertise to collaboratively develop a DHDN infrastructure that enhances data capacity for patient-centered outcomes research and public health surveillance.