Public Health

Allows organizations using Epic's oncology software, Beacon, to meet the Meaningful Use objective to send cancer case information to cancer registries.

Reports National Healthcare Survey data to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

This Outgoing Results and Orders interface sends results in the ELR format. ELR format results follow the HL7 version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health, Release 1. This format is often used to notify public health agencies of tests which must be reported for disease tracking, and meet Meaningful Use (MU) or Promoting Interoperability (PI) measures in the U.S.

This Outgoing Results and Orders Interface sends messages for pathology reports that contain electronic cancer checklists. These messages conform to the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) Standards for Cancer Registries Volume V rules for constructing HL7 messages for CAP electronic cancer checklist synoptic reporting.

Receives unsolicited vaccination administration updates from either an immunization registry or an external clinical system that is not a registry. If integrating with a registry that supports the query interface, the query is the preferred integration.

Initiates a query to and receive a response from an immunization registry system. Each query requests data for a given patient. Generally, registries provide historical immunization data. Some registries additionally supply immunization recommendation data. The incoming portion of the interface does not directly update immunizations in the chart; the provider sees the response from the registry and decides what should be added to the patient record. HL7 2.5.1 specification conforms to the Center for Disease Control HL7 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Immunization Messaging.

Sends information about vaccination administrations to either an immunization registry or a clinical system or receiving system that is not a registry.