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Validation of Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) Data and Implications for Improving Data Quality and Representativeness

Document

Surveillance modernization efforts emphasize the potential use of electronic health record (EHR) data to inform public health surveillance and prevention. However, EHR data streams vary widely in their completeness, accuracy, and representativeness. This publication describes a validation process developed by the Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS) pilot project to identify and resolve data quality issues that could affect chronic disease prevalence estimates.

Year released: 2024

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Data Quality

Reframing Public Health Informatics: A Communications Toolkit

eLearning

Reframing Public Health Informatics is a collection of evidence-based framing recommendations and sample communications designed to help the public health workforce talk about informatics—what it is, how it works, and why its contributions are so important to achieving the goal of improved population health.

Year released: 2022

Topics
All Programs
Communications

Communicating the Value of Public Health Informatics

Presentation

Communicating the Value of Public Health Informatics

Year released: 2018

Topics
All Programs
Communications
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Duration: 41 Minutes

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