EHR Systems to Disease and Syndromic Surveillance.
Assignment Requirements: Answer the four questions about the case in the order in which they are presented below. This will give you an organized outline for your write-up. Be sure that your response substantively addresses the following 4 questions: 1. Formulate a hypothesis regarding the current trends in integrating primary care and disease-specific/syndromic surveillance? Defend your hypothesis with evidence from the case. (This is your position statement.) 2. Discuss and defend the role of Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’s), your assigned role and health informations system (EHRs, CDSS and HIE) as appropriate to the assigned case study. 3. Conclude and explain the successful achievements of the organization presented in the case study. In spite of their success, and considering lessons learned, what would you have done differently and why? Interpret and discuss strategies that the organizations could have been done differently. 4. Propose and discuss the future prospects regarding the integrating disease specific/ syndromic surveillance and primary care, defend your conclusions regarding the likely success in integrating primary care and public health practice in improving population health. Assigned role: Physician.