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Article: Real-time STD reporting is just around the corner!(Information management of Diagnostic reports)(United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- Article from:
- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a goal of receiving all legally reportable laboratory results from all agencies in real time. Real-time transfer of results will need to come from the testing agency, through the state departments of health to the CDC in a matter of minutes--not days. This method has shown an increase in the reporting rate. The electronic format the CDC has selected for the transfer of this information is HL7. This information will include complete patient demographics, testing location, SNOMED (systematized nomenclature of medicine) codes, and LOINC (logical observation identifiers names and codes). As this standard is adopted by ...