Published on in Vol 5, No 1 (2013):

Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness

Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness

Establishing a Federal and State Data Exchange Pilot for Public Health Situational Awareness

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) partnered with the Florida Department of Health (FDOH), Bureau of Epidemiology, to implement a new process for the unidirectional exchange of electronic medical record (EMR) data when ASPR clinical assets are operational in the state following a disaster or other response event. ASPR and FDOH successfully automated the exchange of data from the ASPR electronic medical record system EMR-S into the FDOH Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics (ESSENCE-FL) system during the 2012 Republican National Convention (RNC).