EMR support for Public Health

Overview of the digital health solution

ESP is an open-source software platform that organizes and maps electronic health record data, analyzes the data for conditions of public health interest, and can transmit either case reports or aggregate summaries to health departments. ESP also serves as the platform for a distributed data network that can be queried by authorized public health officials to assess conditions of interest in aggregate, in a secure and transparent fashion under the oversight and control of the data owner. This automated software application analyzes electronic health record (EHR) data to identify and report conditions of interest to public health. ESP takes advantage of existing EHR data to allow clinicians to contribute detailed information to public health agencies with little or no extra work. ESP’s surveillance modules automatically execute highly accurate disease detection algorithms in order to provide meaningful surveillance without placing any extra demands upon clinicians.

P4PPP Framework - Component Area

Protection

Knowledge

Operational Language

EMR Public Health

Software version

v 3.5.1

Release Year

2010

Operational language

English

Internationalisation

No

License Type

Permissive licence

License Details

Opensource GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License

Contact Details

Contact name of owner/ representative

Therapeutics Research and Infectious Disease Epidemiology group

Contact email

ESPhealth@harvardpilgrim.org

Current team members

Not specified

Other key members

Not specified

Country of origin

USA

Project Links

https://www.esphealth.org/

Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Other key partnerships types

Partner

Other key partnerships (details)

None specified

ESP is an open-source software platform that organizes and maps electronic health record data, analyzes the data for conditions of public health interest, and can transmit either case reports or aggregate summaries to health departments. Data is secured under a firewall.

None specified