The White Paper was developed by the participants of the PHDSC-IHE Task Force. The goal is to facilitate standardization of health information exchanges between clinical care and public health. The objective is to engage the public health community in a dialogue with health information technology (HIT) vendors to assure that the work processes and data needs of public health stakeholders in health information exchanges are: 1) well understood and agreed upon by stakeholders themselves (2) communicated clearly to the developers of the interoperable clinical Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and Public Health information systems (EHR-PH Systems).
The PHDSC-IHE Task Force participants believe that this effort will result in the formation of a Public Health Domain at IHE to begin collaboration between public health and HIT vendor communities to guide the development of the IHE Integration Profiles for the Electronic Health Record Systems to enable electronic information exchanges between clinical and public health settings. So, this White Paper serves as a framing document for the creation of the Public Health Domain at IHE.
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