| About Us | |
| Welcome to the Oregon Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) web site. | |
| Organization | |
| Annual Performance Measures Introduction Historically, communicable disease reporting to state and county health departments has been largely paper-based, relying heavily upon procedures such as fax, telephone, and mail. However, today's sophisticated laboratory information systems bring an opportunity to move toward electronic laboratory reporting. The Oregon ELR project is a long-term effort to convert major labs, county health departments, and the state health department to electronic data interchange. In this system, the state health department will serve a new role, functioning as an electronic hub to accept, route, and process electronic HL7 messages containing lab and clinical data. The essential roles of all partners remain unchanged, since this is purely a routing process change. The data transfer to the county level will be virtually immediate, and the county health department will continue to perform its current investigative and other responses. Benefits This new system offers long-term benefits to both laboratories and county or local health departments. Laboratory benefits include:
Public health benefits include:
  Currently, Oregon State Health Services is undergoing large-scale changes related to the development of integrated, electronic, internet-based surveillance systems (the CDC-funded National Electronic Disease Surveillance System - NEDSS. This long-term project encompasses elements of data security, transmission, entry, exchange, format, management, access, as well as business logic capabilities and a public health directory. | |
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| Some of the features of this site are listed below. (Current ELR partners may Sign In here).
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