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| Welcome to the Oregon Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR) web site. | |
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| Annual Performance Measures IMPORTANT NOTICE: Budget cuts have forced the Department of Human Services to close on the ten days listed below, with most employees taking mandatory unpaid furloughs on that day. During these office closures, some - but not all - ELR processes will run in an automated state. However, I am not allowed to respond to any requests for assistance on the closure dates. LABORATORIES: If you have an urgent disease report to send on this closure day, please also FAX it to the appropriate Local Health Department, or you may call our main line (917-371-1111) and press 0 to be connected to our on-call epidemiologist. State Office Closures, 2009-2011 October 16, 2009 November 27, 2009 March 19, 2010 April 16, 2010 June 18, 2010 August 20, 2010 September 17, 2010 November 26, 2010 March 18, 2011 May 20, 2011 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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