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Assessment of electronic health records for infectious disease surveillance

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Assessment of electronic health records for infectious disease surveillance: final mapping exercise report. Stockholm: ECDC; 2021.

This is the final report for the mapping study ‘Assessment of electronic health records (EHRs) for infectious disease surveillance, prevention and control’. The study was commissioned by ECDC and was delivered by RAND Europe. The objective of the project is to investigate the current status of EHR systems in the European Union and European Economic Area (EU/EEA) and the potential capacity for the use of these data for surveillance of infectious diseases within ECDC’s remit.

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