The Oregon ELR project is a long-term effort to convert major labs, county health departments, and the state health department to electronic data interchange. In this system, the state health department functions as an electronic hub to accept, route, and process electronic HL7 messages containing lab and clinical data.
General Introduction to ELR
Historically, communicable disease reporting to state and county health departments has been largely paper-based, relying heavily upon procedures such as FAX, telephone and mail. However, today's sophisticated laboratory information systems bring an opportunity to move toward electronic laboratory reporting
