MDPHnet

Secure, Distributed Sharing of Electronic Health Record Data for Public Health Surveillance, Evaluation, and Planning

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11020150
AutoresJoshua P Vogel (0000-0002-3214-7096, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care), Joshua Vogel (Joshua Vogel and Thomas Land are with the Office of Health Information Policy and Informatics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston. Jeffrey S. Brown, Richard Platt, and Michael Klompas are with the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.), Jeffrey S Brown (0000-0002-9340-7189, Joshua Vogel and Thomas Land are with the Office of Health Information Policy and Informatics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston. Jeffrey S. Brown, Richard Platt, and Michael Klompas are with the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.), Thomas Land (Joshua Vogel and Thomas Land are with the Office of Health Information Policy and Informatics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston. Jeffrey S. Brown, Richard Platt, and Michael Klompas are with the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.), Richard Platt (0000-0002-3248-3583, Joshua Vogel and Thomas Land are with the Office of Health Information Policy and Informatics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston. Jeffrey S. Brown, Richard Platt, and Michael Klompas are with the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.), Michael Klompas (0000-0001-8641-4498, Joshua Vogel and Thomas Land are with the Office of Health Information Policy and Informatics, Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Boston. Jeffrey S. Brown, Richard Platt, and Michael Klompas are with the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, MA.)
Ano2014
Volume104
Fascículo12
Páginas2265-2270
Data de publicação2014-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2014.302103
PMID25322301
OpenAlexW2020732060
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas19

Electronic health record systems contain clinically detailed data from large populations of patients that could significantly enrich public health surveillance. Clinical practices’ security, privacy, and proprietary concerns, however, have limited their willingness to share these data with public health agencies. We describe a novel distributed network for public health surveillance called MDPHnet. The system allows the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) to initiate custom queries against participating practices’ electronic health records while the data remain behind each practice’s firewall. Practices can review proposed queries before execution and approve query results before releasing them to the health department. MDPH is using the system for routine surveillance for priority conditions and to evaluate the impact of public health interventions

Alternative medicine · Business · Computer security · Data sharing · Electronic health record · Environmental health · Firewall (physics) · Health care · Health data · Health department · Health records · HRHIS · Internet privacy · Medical emergency · Medical record · Political science · Public health · Public health informatics · Public health surveillance · Computer Science · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Electronic Health Records Systems · Ethics in Clinical Research · Medicine · Nursing · Health Policy