Lombardo Joseph S, Garrett Nedra, Loschen Wayne, Seagraves Richard, Nichols Barbara, Babin Steven
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Online J Public Health Inform. 2009;1(1). doi: 10.5210/ojphi.v1i1.2750. Epub 2009 Dec 10.
This paper describes a public health alerting approach that has the potential to improve patient care during a public health outbreak and reduce healthcare costs, streamline the process of public health alert management and dissemination, and heighten the crucial feedback loop between public health officials and clinicians. The approach ties public health alerts into the diagnostic process and allows clinicians to more easily determine when an observed medical condition may be related to a more widespread disease outbreak. A prototype Alert Knowledge Repository (AKR) service using this approach was demonstrated within the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and the Public Health Information Network (PHIN) interoperability showcases in April and September 2009, respectively.
本文描述了一种公共卫生警报方法，该方法有可能在公共卫生突发事件期间改善患者护理并降低医疗成本，简化公共卫生警报管理和传播流程，并加强公共卫生官员与临床医生之间至关重要的反馈循环。该方法将公共卫生警报与诊断过程联系起来，使临床医生能够更轻松地确定观察到的医疗状况何时可能与更广泛的疾病爆发有关。分别于2009年4月和9月在卫生信息和管理系统协会（HIMSS）以及公共卫生信息网络（PHIN）的互操作性展示中展示了使用这种方法的原型警报知识库（AKR）服务。
