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CDC plans to roll out app in May to speed up COVID-19 case reporting
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to roll out an app in May that will accelerate electronic case reporting of COVID-19 cases.
The app, based on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standards, can be implemented quickly to automate COVID case reporting, said Laura Conn, health scientist and eCR lead in the CDC’s Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services.
The app enables healthcare providers that don’t have the capability to automatically send case reports from their health IT systems to more efficiently send data to public health agencies.
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