John A. Roberts, Co-chair, HL7 Public Health & Emergency Response Work Group. Interim Chair, National ELR Work Group. Director, Interoperability and Standards, Office for Information Technology Services, Tennessee Department of Health.
	Erin Holt, MPH, Director of the Surveillance Systems and Informatics Program, Communicable and Environmental Disease Services and Emergency Preparedness Section, TN Department of Health, PHER workgroup member

The HL7 Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide: Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health supports the submission of reportable laboratory results to public health. This implementation guide was recently named under the federal regulation in the United States to support meaningful use requirements. This webinar will show how public health is using laboratory data today and how the implementation guide addresses meaningful use requirements as well as state and local laboratory reporting requirements.

The webinar will also provide information on the following:

• Current status of public health adoption of the implementation guide
• Tools developed by public health to aid adoption of the implementation guide
• Lessons learned from current adopters of the guide
• Future updates to the guide

Audience & Benefits
Interface engineers that need to send public health lab reports to public health repositories

Objectives
Upon completion of this webinar, attendees will be able to:

• List the core data elements of lab reports that should be supported
• Discuss use cases supported by the messages in the implementation guide
• Conform to the usage guidance in the implementation guide
• Use the vocabulary and values sets used in the guide
• Validate conformance of messages to the guide

Requirements Addressed
Public Health: §170.314(f)