Sending Public Health Case Reports

All states and territories in the United States require the submission of public health case reports for specific conditions. When submitted electronically, these reports are referred to as electronic initial case reports (eICRs).

One of the ways that NextGen® Enterprise can submit eICRs is through the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Informatics Messaging Services (AIMS) platform. If you are submitting to a particular public health agency (PHA) and that PHA has contracted with AIMS, then you can submit eICRs through AIMS. To export eICRs through AIMS, you must have NextGen® Share and contact NextGen Healthcare Support so they can perform the necessary Rosetta and HIE Gateway configuration.

When AIMS is in use, eICRs are triggered automatically whenever you enter reportable conditions in an encounter in NextGen® Enterprise EHR. However, you can also use the Data Share module to manually generate eICRs for AIMS, even for encounters that do not include conditions that normally trigger a report.

For more information about eICRs, including steps for PHAs that do not contract with AIMS, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Electronic Case Reporting User Guide for NextGen® Enterprise.

You can manually export eICRs to AIMS.