Does CDC intend for there to be data repositories serving several, many, or all states, where data from clinical laboratories will be processed and passed on to the states?
CDC is working to establish an infrastructure for electronic laboratory reporting. The project is still under development. Under this infrastructure, CDC will route lab results from national labs to participating states. CDC is providing this routing service because standards for point to point messaging through HL7 are not available universally. State programs will receive from CDC a standardized data translator that will read the HL7 files and transfer the records into their state integrated data repositories. The process will be fully automated. Messages will not be stored on the CDC router. In addition, these messages will be encrypted during the transmission. Participation in this system will be voluntary: each state will indicate which programs can be included, and where the electronic reports will be sent.
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