Electronic public health reporting & recording of social & behavioral determinants of health among office-based physicians: 2019
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Alternate Title(s):
- Electronic public health reporting and recording of social and behavioral determinants of health among office-based physicians: 2019
- Series Title(s):
- ONC data brief
- Author(s):
- Richwine, Chelsea J., author Charles, Dustin, author Patel, Vaishali, author
- Contributor(s):
- United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Washington, DC : Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, August 2022
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Electronic Data Processing -- statistics & numerical data Physicians Public Health Informatics -- statistics & numerical data Public Health Surveillance Public Reporting of Healthcare Data Social Determinants of Health Health Behavior United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- The COVID-19 pandemic exposed gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure, including a need for increased electronic exchange of patient health information between health care providers and public health agencies (PHAs). Physicians play a critical role in supporting public health surveillance by reporting to PHAs. While public health reporting often occurs through manual, paper-based processes, national efforts have focused on increasing electronic reporting to PHAs. Improving surveillance would also include increasing PHAs’ access to data on social and behavioral determinants of health that affect a person’s health outcomes and risks. These data are important to enhancing public health surveillance as they enable identification of populations in need of greater assistance, including those with comorbidities and other risk factors. Using data from a nationally representative sample of physicians, this brief describes primary care and other office-based physicians’ electronic public health reporting and social and behavioral determinants of health data recording capabilities and how they varied by physician and practice characteristics. This analysis offers insights into physicians’ readiness to electronically support public health activities in the year prior to the pandemic; it does not report on physicians’ overall levels of public health reporting--which can occur through manual, paper-based methods--nor does it reflect recent levels of electronic public health reporting which may have improved during the pandemic.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (20 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918538387806676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918538387806676