Medical Economics August 19, 2022
Immunization data is the most traded as figures rose in 2019.
Increasing numbers of primary care physicians (PCPs) shared medical information electronically with public health agencies (PHAs) in the year before the COVID-19 pandemic.
They also began logging more data about social and behavioral determinants of health for patients, according to the survey examining electronic communications between physicians and PHAs, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“The COVID-19 pandemic revealed significant gaps in public health infrastructure needed to support the electronic exchange of public health data among health care providers and PHAs,” said the report published by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The data are important for at least two reasons:...