Building a Digital Bridge

The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) shares the technical aspects of the Digital Bridge approach to electronic case reporting and how it aims for …

Ready or not? Protecting the public’s health from diseases, disasters and bioterrorism

This Robert Wood Johnson-sponsored report analyzes progress in the nation’s public health preparedness and included an overview of Digital Bridge’s effort to improve public health …

Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies appropriation bill

The Digital Bridge initiative is mentioned in the appropriation bill, emphasizing interest in integrated public health strategy to improve real-time surveillance.

Six use cases for EHR data utilization in public, community health

The de Beaumont Foundation and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently collaborated on a report that highlights ways electronic health record (EHR) data …

Preparing for meaningful use

Electronic case reporting (eCR) is the initial use case that the Digital Bridge initiative is advancing to improve the bidirectional exchange of public health data …

New workgroups

Seven sites selected to participate in eCR implementations

The Digital Bridge project management office has selected seven sites to participate in eCR implementations: California, Houston, Kansas, Massachusetts, New York City, Michigan and Utah. …

Bridging the data divide: Project aims to revolutionize reporting of diseases

Reporter Andy Miller spoke with Jim Jellison, Richard Paskach (HealthPartners) and Kathy Turner (Idaho Department of Health and Welfare) about the vision of Digital Bridge …

Initiative begins efforts to link providers, public health agencies

Vivian Singletary spoke with a reporter from Health Data Management magazine to give an overview of the Digital Bridge project. She pinpointed project highlights and …

‘Digital Bridge’ Promises to Strengthen U.S. Public Health Response to Disease Outbreaks

This article provides an overview of the Digital Bridge initiative and highlights the value of electronic case reporting and the impact it could have on …