Electronic Health Records May Help to Promote Public Health Initiatives

question 28

Multiple Choice

Electronic health records may help to promote public health initiatives by:

• A) promoting early detection of potential pandemic occurrences.
• B) automating syndromic surveillance of emergency department records.
• C) generating population-level alerts to be sent to clinicians.
• D) All of these are correct.

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