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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

interchange with Local Health. This was endorsed by NYSACHO in 1996. In 2003,<br />

Commissioner memorandum promulgated the Commerce Health Emergency<br />

Response Data System (HERDS), its GIS, and the communications directory and<br />

alerting system as the Official Health Response communications system for health<br />

events to local health, hospitals, SEMO and County Emergency Managers. In 2004,<br />

NYS Public Health Law (Section 400.10) was amended to require all Article 28, 36,<br />

40 facilities to use the HPN, maintain an available cadre of active users on the<br />

system and maintain communications directory information up to date.<br />

3. Capacity and Scope<br />

The Commerce system and the applications within its domains provide both routine<br />

and PHP-related information interchange for all regulated health facilities and health<br />

related providers of health services in NY (Figure 1). As of January 2006, Commerce<br />

supports over 40,000 users and 13,000 organizations. All local health Departments<br />

(including NYCDOHMH ), regulated health facilities (e.g. hospitals, nursing homes,<br />

home health and personal care, clinics) use the system. Licensed practitioners and<br />

their practices (physicians, dentists, veterinarians, nurse practitioners) are joining the<br />

system at a rate of approximately 500 practitioners per week through the NYSDOH<br />

Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement (BNE) prescription registration program. Other<br />

PHP partner organizations, NY state agencies and other state health departments in<br />

the Northeast region have access to the system. The organizations include practitioner<br />

practices (i.e., physician’s offices). All health facilities and Local Health<br />

Departments (LHDs) in NYS have been trained in the use of the commerce system.<br />

Commerce training information for LHDs may be found at:<br />

https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/hin/training/index.html<br />

And for health facilities at:<br />

https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/hpn/training/index.html<br />

4. Core Systems<br />

a. Internal NYSDOH Office Automation (OA) and workflow support. All<br />

agency staff (Central Office, Regional Offices and District Offices) utilize<br />

Lotus notes (domino) OA systems for internal/external e-mail communication,<br />

coordination and electronic support of workflow processes. The system<br />

supports mail logs (Bureau Mail Logs, i.e., BMLs), internal discussion<br />

databases, agency-wide applications and a workflow processing system,<br />

TeamRoom. These OA systems are supported within the agency Disaster<br />

Recovery and availability architecture (below) and provide a central platform<br />

for Agency communications and workflow required to support any Public<br />

Health preparedness (PHP) event.<br />

b. Communications Directory (ComDir). A central integrated repository for<br />

electronic role and contact information on the Commerce System.<br />

Coordinators appointed by a Public Health Director or CEO of participant<br />

organizations maintain their organizations’ entries in the directory using web<br />

tools. Health facilities are required by NYSDOH regulation to maintain active<br />

coordinators and to maintain this information up to date. Roles in the<br />

February 7, 2006 13-7

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