“…Health Level Seven (HL7) is a standard that is not only recognized internationally for data exchange in clinical departments, but also used by the management of public health in the surveillance of diseases [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 ]. However, in the literature, there are few examples where the HL7 standard is used for improving the passive surveillance of reportable diseases, such as dengue [ 34 , 35 , 36 ].…”