Electronic Case Reporting

eCR is the automated, near real-time generation and secure transmission of case reports from electronic health records to public health agencies for review and action.

As soon as a patient’s electronic health record indicates certain reportable conditions, a case report is created and sent to a public health agency, which uses the information to determine any next steps, such as contact tracing or quarantine. By reducing the manual burden on healthcare providers to meet their reporting requirements, eCR improves the timeliness, accuracy and completeness of disease reporting across local, state and national levels.

eCR enhances public health surveillance and response by enabling earlier detection of reportable conditions and faster public health interventions. Automated reporting ensures that providers can efficiently comply with legal reporting obligations in all US states and territories, while eliminating reliance on outdated and time-consuming manual methods, such as fax or mail.

Through collaboration among healthcare organizations, electronic health record vendors and public health agencies, eCR ensures that critical information on diseases and conditions of public health importance is shared seamlessly and securely, supporting more effective monitoring, response and prevention efforts.

Benefits of eCR include:

• Earlier detection and intervention for communicable diseases, as data travels faster.

• Fewer data errors, as less manual data entry is required.

• Better patient care, enabled by immediate feedback from the public health agency.

Our AIMS platform provides the data transport infrastructure for eCR, ensuring that case reports are reported quickly and to the appropriate jurisdictions for intervention and action.

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The Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) is the authoritative, real-time decision support system used by public health agencies to improve disease surveillance by ensuring that reportable conditions are identified accurately and consistently. RCKMS maintains comprehensive, jurisdiction-specific public health reporting requirements and applies those criteria to determine whether a case is reportable and to which public health agency it should be sent. Hosted centrally on the AIMS Platform, RCKMS is an integral component of eCR infrastructure.

RCKMS includes three core components:

• Authoring Interface: A web portal for public health agencies to input, edit and manage their jurisdictional reporting criteria.
• Knowledge Repository: The database containing data on reporting specifications.
• Decision Support Service: A decision support service (DSS) that healthcare reporters can invoke to determine if a potential case is reportable, and to which jurisdiction(s).