By Marcus A. Banks
The CDC is making a new push to encourage health facilities to share data with public health authorities using electronic case reports (eCR) rather than faxes. Electronic case reports automatically compile information from electronic health records (EHRs) about a patient’s demographics, clinical outcomes and risk factors. 
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, such case reports were barely in use in the United States, but now they are very widespread. CDC reports that