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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

partners within their jurisdiction. The DOC-L system is available through thee normal<br />

account tools for LHDs and can be found at:<br />

https://commerce.health.state.ny.us/hin/software/coord.html<br />

‣ Action items:<br />

o Expand out reach to tribal nations, border states and Canada to recruit<br />

additional commerce account users and linkage to HERDS for these<br />

jurisdictions.<br />

o Test and validate existing accounts and contact information for tribes,<br />

external jurisdictions and external state/federal agencies.<br />

o Work with LHDs to implement use of the DOC-L system for sign-up of<br />

local response partners<br />

3. Demographic Profiles<br />

Demographic profiles of local communities (including special needs populations and<br />

language minorities) required for inclusion in the operational plan can be reported and<br />

tracked through the County HERDS Instance [also known as County Surveillance and<br />

Reporting System (cosur)]. These can be linked to the HERDS GIS visualization as<br />

well as to person-attributes in the professional medical volunteer and NYSDOH<br />

volunteer database system.<br />

‣ Action items:<br />

o Expand LHD PHP survey to include Local Demographic Profile<br />

Information reporting.<br />

4. Communications, Notification and Alerting<br />

The NYSDOH Public Health Preparedness unit has overall programmatic<br />

responsibility for oversight of the IHANS system. They are responsible for<br />

coordination of access rules, use and functional requirements for the system<br />

(Notification System business rules are in Appendix 13-B).<br />

The Communications Directory and IHANS System will be used for creating HAN<br />

postings and generating related emergency notifications at various levels of urgency<br />

during a pandemic. These will be delivered to personnel in key communications<br />

directory roles at NYSDOH regional offices, local health departments, hospitals,<br />

nursing homes, laboratories, home health care, diagnostic and treatment centers, adult<br />

care facilities, tribal nations, external agencies and local response partners as<br />

required. Regional offices and local health jurisdictions are able to use the IHANS<br />

alert tool to transmit notifications and post HAN alerts within their<br />

regions/jurisdictions to the recipient organizations as described above.<br />

The NYSDOH Health Alert BML in Lotus Notes will be the central receipt and<br />

warning point for notifications from other external agencies such as the CDC/HAN,<br />

CDC/Epi-X, CDC/Other, SEMO, Department of Agriculture and Markets,<br />

Department of Environmental Conservation and NYS Office of Homeland Security to<br />

February 7, 2006 13-17

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