Improving Vaccine-Preventable Disease Reporting and Surveillance Through Health Information Exchange

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Overview

This study implements and evaluates a new electronic tool designed to improve clinical provider reporting rates for vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks in Indiana, and to support more efficient provider reporting to public health agencies. The tool takes advantage of Indiana’s statewide health information exchange (HIE) that enables data-sharing between clinical and public health organizations, and replaces existing inefficient reporting procedures.

Presentations

• Improving Vaccine-Preventable Disease Reporting through Health Information Exchange (Abstract accepted for Poster presentation, 2015 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, November 2015)
• Improving Vaccine-Preventable Disease Reporting through Health Information Exchange (Systems for Action Research Seminar, University of Kentucky, October 2015, recording)
• Improving Vaccine-Preventable Disease Reporting through Health Information Exchange (Poster, AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 2015)
• Improving Population Health through Targeted Decision Support (PHSSR Keeneland Conference, April 2015)
• Leveraging Electronic Health Records for Public Health: From Automated Disease Reporting to Developing Population Health Indicators (PHSSR Research in Progress Webinar series, March 2015, recording)

Tools

• Research Overview and Implications (Video interview with Brian Dixon, October 2015)
• Improving Population Health Through Enhanced Targeted Regional Decision Support (Orientation materials for clinics participating in pilot study, October 2012)

Research Areas

• Information and Technology
• Information and Communication Technologies

Contact

Researcher: Brian Dixon, Ph.D., M.P.A.
Research Mentor: Shaun Grannis, M.D., M.S., FAAFP
Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health and Regenstrief Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics