Vision

Provide timely and secure access to quality public health data for surveillance, analysis, and decision making, respecting the confidential nature of private information.

On a daily basis, partners in California's public health system, government public health professionals, health providers, researchers, community advocates, insurers, business leaders, policy-makers feel limited in their ability to access relevant, population-based information. Though many information systems exist, the fact that these systems are not integrated and not based on an established set of standards means that they operate independently, contributing to inefficiencies such as duplicative data entry, incomplete data on individuals, and unreported information. An integrated public health information system is needed to effectively serve the data needs of the local, state, and federal public health workforce and California's citizens.

CalPHIN is gearing up to again to provide a method by which the local, state, and federal public health workforce may secure necessary public health information to prevent disease and promote health within the state. To this end, the following studies and reports are made available describing the California Department of Health Services' current effort:

• Confidential Morbidity Reporting (CMR) Project Final Feasibility Study Report
• CMR project Summary
• CMR Project FSR Appendix A - Acronym List
• CMR Project FSR Appendixes B & C - CMR and Disease List
• Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR) Project Final Feasibility Study Report

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