CASE STUDY You have been hired as an informatician at a state health has had an immunization registry in operation for several department. The health department is developing systems years and has been successful in getting cooperation from to receive laboratory and clinical case reports from clinical healthcare settings to send data to the system. settings, such as hospitals and doctor's offices. Your state Discussion Questions 3. What standard vocabulary is used to code a vaccine name 1. Why is the system for reporting immunizations and and how is this vocabulary different from the LOINC or receiving results at the health department so successful, SNOMED-CT vocabularies required for laboratory and particularly in comparison to the struggles you are observ- clinical case reporting? ing as the health department sets up its laboratory and case 4. What is the value proposition for a healthcare provider to reporting systems? participate in an immunization registry? 2. What is the difference between the information required to report the administration of an immunization and the information required to report a person with a communi- cable disease