Question

CASE STUDY You have been hired as an informatician at a state health department. The health department is developing systems to receive laboratory and clinical case report from clinical setting. Such as hospital and doctors’ offices. Your state has had an immunization Registry in operation for several years and has been successful in getting cooperation from healthcare settings to send data to the system.

What is the Value proposition for a healthcare provider to participate in an immunization registry?

Answer 1

Participation of health care providers in the state immunization registry is very significant. The health care providers have to send the immunization reports of their areas to the state immunization information system within a certain limit of time. This process involves the participation costs of health care providers due to the labour and equipments costs. Healthcare workers involved in collection of immunization data to sending them to state immunization registry are to be paid for their significant efforts. However these costs can be reduced by the ease of registry interface and electronic transfers of data.

Use of web-based portals for easy input and transmission of immunization data into the immunization registry proved to be incredibly valuable and saved health providers time, money and the inconvenience of having to unnecessarily revaccinate the displaced patients.