Development and Assessment of a Public Health Alert Delivered through a Community Health Information Exchange
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Timely communication of information to health care providers during a public health event can improve overall response to such events. However, current methods for sending information to providers are inefficient and costly. Local health departments have traditionally used labor-intensive, mail-based processes to send public health alerts to the provider community. This article describes a novel approach for delivering public health alerts to providers by leveraging an electronic clinical messaging system within the context of a health information exchange. Alerts included notifications related to the 2009 H1N1 flu epidemic, a syphilis outbreak, and local rabies exposure. We describe the process for sending electronic public health alerts and the estimated impact on efficiency and cost effectiveness.
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The INPC provides population-level messages from public health departments to clinicians during localized outbreak events.
“Building upon its Docs4Docs service, the INPC provides population-level messages from public health departments to clinicians during localized outbreak events [26, 27].”
From Evolution of clinical Health Information Exchanges to population health resources: a case study of the Indiana network for patient care (2025) · cites this paper as [27]
The Methods (Public Health Alerting and Alerting Workflow) describe public-health agencies sending alerts through DOCS4DOCS to physicians across a jurisdiction or in targeted areas. The Results describe alerts about local outbreaks. Our copy identifies DOCS4DOCS as an Indiana Health Information Exchange service, but does not identify the alerting service as part of the INPC. (LLM, conf=0.83)
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- Authors
- Gamache, R., Stevens, K. C., Merriwether, R., Dixon, B. E., & Grannis, S.
- Affiliations
- Regenstrief Institute (US)
- Marion County Public Health Department (US)
- Venue
- Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Libraries
- Published
- 2010-10-26
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 1947-2579 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3615760
- OpenAlex
- W2123992925
- Cited by
- 20
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 2.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- Online Journal of Public Health Informatics (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Purdue University Indianapolis (Indiana University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Electronic Health Records Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Disaster Response and Management
- Keywords
- public health alerts, health information exchange, local health departments, 2009 H1N1 influenza, syphilis outbreak, rabies exposure, cost-effectiveness, public health communication
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