Electronic Case Reporting
Learn how eHealth Exchange network participants are sharing electronic case reports via the Hub for no additional fees
GET MORE VALUE FROM YOUR MEMBERSHIP!
Send Unlimited Case Reports for No Additional Fees
Instead of paying for transaction volume-based fee with another service provider, all eHealth Exchange participants may initiate unlimited case reports to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) via the Hub.
Organizations using the eHealth Exchange hub aren’t vulnerable to increased fees due to spikes in activity, such as with COVID-19 reporting.
Pushing Electronic Case Reports
Step 1
A matching clinical code (such as “COVID-19”) triggers the generation of an electronic case report (eCR).
Instead of paying for transaction volume-based fee with another service provider, all eHealth Exchange participants may initiate unlimited case reports to the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) via the Hub.
Organizations using the eHealth Exchange hub aren’t vulnerable to increased fees due to spikes in activity, such as with COVID-19 reporting.
Step 2
The eCR contains a document payload
which reports on items such as patient, encounter, condition and travel history information, if available.
Organizations using the eHealth Exchange hub aren’t vulnerable to increased fees due to spikes in activity, such as with COVID-19 reporting.
Step 3
The eCR document submission is transmitted to APHL AIMS using the Hub,
however, the Hub does not store the eCR document.
Organizations using the eHealth Exchange hub aren’t vulnerable to increased fees due to spikes in activity, such as with COVID-19 reporting.
Step 4
APHL AIMS forwards the eCR to public health authorities
according to an evaluation it performs on the reportability of the eCR.
Step 5
APHL AIMS generates a reportability response (also in the form of a document submission) that is sent back to the eCR submitter.
A reportability response typically includes information about what has been determined to be reportable to public health agencies (PHAs) and which PHAs have been sent eCR information.
Step 6
Typically, the eCR submitter stores the APHL AIMS reportability response
with the patient’s records (a.k.a. the patient’s chart).
BEYOND COVID-19
More Than 80 Types of Case Reports Supported
While many eHealth Exchange network participants begin using the electronic case reporting use case in support of COVID-19 testing and diagnoses, 132 reportable diseases can be automatically shared with APHL, and therefore the appropriate local, state, and national public health agencies.
eHealth Exchange Participants
are seamlessly sending millions of COVID-19 testing and diagnoses reports
to the CDC and other national and state agencies
What our members are saying
We've established a more stable connection
“Since switching to the eHealth Exchange hub, we’ve established a more stable connection for sharing these critical case reports. State and federal officials are relying on these reports to make decisions in the fight against COVID-19.”
Paul Mathews
Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, OCHIN
Get Started Sharing Electronic Case Reports
eHealth Exchange Network Participants:
Notify administrator@ehealthexchange.org that your organization wants to push electronic case reports to APHL (Association of Public Health Laboratories).
