Electronic Disease Surveillance and Reporting: the eReport System

Abstract

The availability of inexpensive computers and the popularity of the World Wide Web ("Web") have encouraged the development of inexpensive, readily available software that enable secure financial transactions over the Web. This same "e-commerce" technology consisting of database-backed web sites, web-based forms, secure communications and digital signatures can be used for securely reporting and sharing sensitive infortion about communicable diseases and outbreaks to public health entities throughout the United States.

Citation:
William P. Malloy and Latanya Sweeney. Electronic Disease Surveillance and Reporting: the eReport System. Proceedings, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA). Washington, DC: Hanley & Belfus, Inc. Nov 2001; 964. (PDF).

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