CASE STUDY You have been hired as an informatician health has at a state health has had an immunization registry in operation for ems years and has been successful in getting cooperation fne department. The health department is developing systems to receive laboratory and clinical case reports from clinical settings, such as hospitals and doctor’s offices. Your state healthcare settings t o send data to the system.
Discussion Questions 1. Why is the system for reporting immunizations and What standard vocabulary is used to code a vaccine name and how is this vocabulary different from the LOINC or results at the health department so successful, SNOMED CT vocabularies required for laboratory and particularly in comparison to the struggles you are observ clinical case reporting? ing as the health department sets up its laboratory and case 4. What is the value proposition for a healthcare provider to reporting systems? participate in an immunization registry? 2. What is the difference between the information required to report the administration of an immunization and the information required to report a person with a communi- cable disease?
