Rural Health Information Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Report discusses the benefits of electronic case reporting (eCR) for tribal public health authorities and epidemiology centers (TECs). Highlights challenges in implementing eCR as well as the benefits of electronic disease surveillance conducted by Tribes and TECs.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

. “They don’t provide enough information and enough transparency about where these numbers are coming from,” said Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist who specializes in disease surveillance. This is what renders California’s increase mysterious.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Describing the 19 rural counties she serves as “very minimal-government-minded,” she said, “if you try to work against them, it will not go well.” ” Rural health departments are also stretched thin. Surveillance outside of farms was even patchier than on them, and bird flu tests are hard to get.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jennifer Morse, medical director of the Mid-Michigan District Health Department, said local health officials have been hesitant to apply pressure after the backlash many faced at the peak of Covid. Rural health departments are also stretched thin.

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