Environmental health (EH) services in the United States lag behind other areas of public health and health care with respect to information system interoperability and data sharing. This is partly due to an absence of well-defined use cases, the lack of direct economic drivers and resources to improve, the multiple jurisdictional elements that govern EH services across the United States, and no central organization to drive modernization of EH data. We summarize the status of EH information systems; argue for greater interoperability, including use cases for a messaging standard for environmental inspections; and present recommendations to better align EH services and data modernization efforts currently underway in other areas of public health.

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环境检查的消息传递标准：是时候了吗？

美国的环境健康（EH）服务在信息系统互操作性和数据共享方面落后于其他公共卫生和医疗保健领域。部分原因是缺乏明确的用例、缺乏直接的经济驱动力和改进资源、管理美国各地 EH 服务的多个管辖要素，以及没有中央组织来推动 EH 数据的现代化。我们总结了EH信息系统的现状；主张更大的互操作性，包括环境检查消息传递标准的用例；并提出建议，以更好地协调其他公共卫生领域目前正在进行的 EH 服务和数据现代化工作。