Pandemic Influenza Plan - Questar III

Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics
d. Statewide Arbovirus reporting system. Supports mammal, avian and vector
surveillance and reporting for WNV, EEE and SLE. Capacity is available for
reporting animal/avian influenza.
e. Emergency Department Surveillance System. Supports Electronic Emergency
Department Surveillance for Unusual Disease Clusters by Local health
Departments. This includes Respiratory Illness with fever.
f. Syndromic Surveillance System. Supports statewide syndromic surveillance
for OTC medications, Medicaid prescriptions and for specific regions in the
state, ED chief complaint data.
The communicable disease reporting system (CEDSS), ECLRS, arbovirus
surveillance, emergency department surveillance systems, related reports and
supportive disease reporting information, including influenza may be found at the
communicable disease reporting home page:
(https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/hin/hinapps/commdis/commdis1.html) or as links
from the HPN Data submission page.
6. Medical/Professional Volunteer Database
Licensed medical/dental/veterinary professions joining the commerce system
through the BNE outreach efforts may electronically sign-up as volunteers for
health events using the volunteer database system available to practitioners on their
specific practitioners pages on commerce. The Public Health Preparedness
Volunteer Practitioner Database allows NYSDOH to track professions, availability,
contact information, attributes (i.e., languages spoken, etc.) of volunteer providers.
The IHANS system is used to alert the volunteers in the event of their need for
activation. Local health Departments have access to this information within their
respective jurisdiction. The practitioner page is available at:
https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/hpn/practitioners/practitioners.html
The New York State Department of Public Health Preparedness Volunteer
Practitioner Database is a relational data system which stores the volunteer
information of licensed medical professionals who have accounts on the Health
Provider Network (HPN) eCommerce site, or who have volunteered for the
statewide system through the Medical Society of the State of New York (MSSNY)
or the New York State Nursing Association (NYSNA). This information is then
available for retrieval through a reporting tool on the eCommerce site which allows
the searcher to locate medical professionals by profession, county of residence, and
additional credentials such as reported specialties or certifications. The two
primary components of this system are the volunteer questionnaire and the search
application.
The Volunteer Questionnaire application enables licensed health care professionals
(with HPN accounts and access) to become a volunteer for deployment in times of
emergency. The on-line, web-enabled questionnaire allows users to provide the
Department with information such as contact information, home and work
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