Public Health and E-HIM: How EHRs Can Provide Data to Help Monitor the Population's Health


As HIM professionals, we are well aware of the need for public, or population, health data. However, as we now enter the era of electronic health records (EHRs), our e-HIMTM and EHR implementations have not placed much emphasis on public health data. The 2001 anthrax attacks and the SARS outbr....