Required public health reporting submission

Purpose

 1.1. Facilitate automatic submission of required public health data (e.g., reportable diseases, immunizations, adverse events) to local, state, and federal agencies for Allergy & Immunology practices.
 1.2. Ensure compliance with public health legislation and protect patient data integrity.
 1.3. Reduce manual errors and administrative burden in regulatory reporting.
 1.4. Enable real-time and batch updates to public health registries and secure transfer of sensitive patient information.
 1.5. Support documentation for audits and legal requirements.

Trigger Conditions

 2.1. Completion of a patient diagnosis involving a reportable condition.
 2.2. Entry/update of immunization records.
 2.3. Receipt of lab results flagged as notifiable (e.g., severe allergic reaction).
 2.4. Submission or approval of encounter notes indicating reportable events.
 2.5. Authorized user initiates report submission manually or scheduled (e.g., end-of-day batching).

Platform Variants

 3.1. Epic
  • Feature/Setting: HL7 eXchange — connect 'Outbound Interface' to syndromic surveillance endpoint with ORU^R01 triggers.
 3.2. Cerner Millennium
  • Feature/Setting: PowerChart Public Health Reporting — enable IHE QRDA export on reportable event.
 3.3. Allscripts
  • Feature/Setting: Public Health API — configure POST to /publichealth/report with FHIR bundle payload.
 3.4. Athenahealth
  • Feature/Setting: Public Health Submissions — set up endpoint for Immunization/Report Condition triggers via API push.
 3.5. NextGen Healthcare
  • Feature/Setting: Mirth Connect integration – route HL7 reports to state registry endpoints on trigger.
 3.6. eClinicalWorks
  • Feature/Setting: Public Health Interface — enable CCD/HL7 push to state reporting agency API.
 3.7. Practice Fusion
  • Feature/Setting: Direct Messaging — configure outbound channel to state public health mailbox.
 3.8. Greenway Health
  • Feature/Setting: Prime Suite Immunization Registry — automatic upload to state immunization endpoint via SFTP/API.
 3.9. Meditech
  • Feature/Setting: Data Repository Automation — batch export selected records and FTP to health department daily.
 3.10. DrChrono
  • Feature/Setting: FHIR API Public Health Reporting — POST /fhir/Observation with predefined code set.
 3.11. Surescripts
  • Feature/Setting: Public Health Gateway — enable eReporting for Rx-impacted notifications via API.
 3.12. HL7 over Mirth Connect
  • Feature/Setting: Channel for transforming and routing HL7 ORU or VXU messages to public agencies.
 3.13. Salesforce Health Cloud
  • Feature/Setting: Health Cloud API integration — trigger flows on reportable case creation using Platform Events.
 3.14. Microsoft Azure Logic Apps
  • Feature/Setting: Logic App workflow — monitor FHIR API for reportable events, auto-forward by HTTP action.
 3.15. AWS HealthLake
  • Feature/Setting: EventBridge rule on FHIR data change — Lambda to format and send to health registry.
 3.16. Google Healthcare API
  • Feature/Setting: DICOM/FHIR Listener — setup Pub/Sub trigger for reporting incidents to agency API.
 3.17. Redox
  • Feature/Setting: Data Model transform engine — map Allergy & Immunology case data to state health schema.
 3.18. InterSystems HealthShare
  • Feature/Setting: Global Alerting — auto route HL7 to public health authorities on defined triggers.
 3.19. SMART on FHIR Apps
  • Feature/Setting: Application trigger for investigation or immunization type, HTTP callout to reporting API.
 3.20. IBM Watson Health
  • Feature/Setting: Integration Bus — schedule task for regulated data to be sent to public health systems via RESTful call.
 3.21. SAP Health Engagement
  • Feature/Setting: Task orchestration — configure scheduled or event-driven reporting process via API upload.
 3.22. MuleSoft
  • Feature/Setting: DataWeave transformation — real-time or batched HL7 transformations to REST/SOAP endpoints.

Benefits

 4.1. Ensures legal compliance with public health mandates for Allergy & Immunology practices.
 4.2. Reduces human errors and missed reporting events.
 4.3. Slashes manual data entry and follow-up time.
 4.4. Enables auditable and timestamped data flows for inspection readiness.
 4.5. Accelerates detection of public health trends by near real-time submissions.
 4.6. Protects patient privacy with encrypted and authenticated data transfer.
 4.7. Frees staff to focus on patient care over paperwork.
 4.8. Adapts to new regulatory codes or formats quickly via configurable automation.
 4.9. Enables secure, multi-agency distribution where required (state and CDC).
 4.10. Supports integration with immunization registries and national surveillance systems.