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Submitting Work Group
Public Health Work Group (PHWG)
Communication Channels
- General Public Health Connectathon Thread (Zulip): https://chat.fhir.org/#narrow/stream/238751-Public-Health.202020-05.20Connectathon
- Each of the Public Health Track scenarios will have its own Zoom channel. They can be found by searching for "Public Health" in the Whova agenda.
Justification and Objectives
Public health includes a number of use cases involving the exchange of information between Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in clinical care and governmental Public Health Agencies (PHAs) or other extra-clinical organizations. The use cases differ, but they frequently have a number of common design elements as well. A major point of emphasis is seeing that these common design elements are broadly shared to minimize divergent requests of clinical care and minimize provider burden. Some participant use cases have FHIR ballots in development or in-process that they seek to test with partners. Other participants will focus on fleshing out technical elements of a common framework for reporting from EHRs.
In this Connectathon, the public health track will include several scenarios (scenario lead):
- eCR Now FHIR App - Automated Reporting App for COVID-19 (John Loonsk, Nagesh Bashyam (Dragon))
- MedMorph and Electronic Case Reporting (eCR) - joint activities (Nagesh Bashyam (Dragon), John Loonsk)
- Integrating Cancer Reporting Standards (Alex Goel)
- SANER Scenario (Rick Geimer, David Pyke)
FHIR Versions
4.0.1, 3.0.1, and 2.X
Clinical input requested
Clinical participation is always sought and welcome in the Public Health Track
Related tracks
To be determined
Public Health Track Leads
John Loonsk (john.loonsk@jhu.edu)
Sarah Gaunt (sarah.gaunt@lantanagroup.com)
Cindy Bush (pdz1@cdc.gov)
Rick Geimer (Rick.Geimer@lantanagroup.com)
David Pyke (david.pyke@readycomputing.com)
Expected participants
Specific participant lists are still developing, but previous participants in this track have included:
- Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
- Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services
- California Department of Public Health
- Carradora
- District of Columbia Department of Health
- Dynamic Content Group
- Georgia Department of Public Health
- Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Hi3 Solutions
- Lantana Consulting Group
- Medical University of South Carolina
- Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
- MITRE
- National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems
- New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration
- New York State Department of Health
- Northrup Grumman
- Utah Department of Health
Scenarios
Report Out
TBD