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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

Automated processes monitor viability of critical systems within the agency network and<br />

within the commerce system. An automated notification is sent to the infrastructure<br />

response on-call roster and the incident commanders in the event of an outage or problem<br />

with these systems.<br />

There are several pathways for health alerting, and/or notification of need for posting of a<br />

health alert. Specific external entities (CDC HAN, CDC Epi-X, CDC/Other, NYS OHS,<br />

NYCDOHMH) may send an alert notification or alert content for posting on the NYS<br />

commerce HAN to Health Alert BML (healthalert@health.state.ny.us.) This will trigger<br />

automated notification of the Public Health Preparedness Unit (Appendix 13-A) who will<br />

review the notification and post on the NYS HAN system using the Commerce Alert<br />

Tool. The PHP Unit may also forward the posting responsibility to<br />

hinweb@health.state.ny.us which will in turn trigger automated notification of the HAN<br />

Coordinator and HAN on-call roster for posting using the alert tool. Specific DOH<br />

executive staff (Appendix 13-A) may directly request posting of an alert to the NYS<br />

Commerce HAN by forwarding the content and request to hinweb, which will in turn<br />

trigger an automated notification to the HAN on-call staff to post the alert.<br />

Request for posting of Alerts and/or notification of alert situations may also be made to<br />

NYSDOH using the Duty officer System (see Appendix 13-A). Regional Offices and<br />

Local Health Departments may also use the Alert Tool to initiate alerts within their<br />

regions or jurisdictions.<br />

D. NYSDOH Health Commerce<br />

1. Background<br />

The Health Commerce System (Figure 1, next page) is entirely web-based and<br />

designed to be the Department’s strategic infrastructure to support and integrate all of<br />

its information interchange activities with external agencies. It is accessible via the<br />

internet and by other venues supporting IP protocol communications. It is based on<br />

standards espoused by DHHS HIT framework and CDC PHIN. The Health commerce<br />

system is comprised of three domains, each tailored to the specific information<br />

exchange needs of the intended audience. The Health Information Network 1 (HIN) is<br />

the web ‘portal’ by which Local Health Departments access the Commerce system.<br />

The Health Provider Network (HPN) is the portal by which the clinical/Health<br />

provider organizations access the commerce system. The Health Alert Network<br />

(HAN) is a third domain on the NYSDOH Health Commerce System which provides<br />

health alerting for public Health Preparedness for both the HIN and HPN. The<br />

commerce system is available at https://commerce.health.state.ny.us.<br />

2. Basis<br />

In 1996 NYSDOH Commissioner of Health memorandum (DOHMEM 96-10)<br />

promulgated HIN as the official Department platform for health information<br />

1 The term network as it is used here is not a dedicated data communications network. Health commerce is<br />

a web based system. Rather it is to denote a network of organizations affiliated with the NYSDOH Health<br />

commerce system for the purpose of health information interchange.<br />

February 7, 2006 13-5

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