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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

• Practitioners: physicians, nurses, pharmacies<br />

• POD, SNS personnel<br />

• Laboratory administrators; laboratory technical<br />

• Public/risk communications contacts<br />

• Other specific state agencies<br />

• County administrators, incident commanders who should receive<br />

all notifications (they could also be added to each of the other lists)<br />

• Health facilities administrators<br />

o Facilities on the lists should be directed to assure contact information for<br />

their personnel is updated in the communications directory on routine<br />

basis.<br />

• Expansion of access to, and training/certification in the Notification System.<br />

A cadre of NYSDOH officials in the Public Health Preparedness program, in the<br />

Division of Epidemiology, and in the Healthcare Preparedness program has been<br />

trained on use of the system (Appendix 13-D). However, regional offices need to<br />

complete certification and use the alert tool on a routine basis. A larger group of<br />

NYSDOH central office staff will need inclusion in training, including<br />

Wadsworth Laboratories and additional Office of Health Systems Management,<br />

Center for Community Health and Center for Environmental Health.<br />

• Assure Establish Pre-recorded messages for alert tool. Work with BHNSM to<br />

establish pre-recorded messages for use in the voice component of the alert<br />

system for pandemic influenza notifications.<br />

• Engage CDC to complete Linkage of EpiX to NYSDOH HAN. Continue to<br />

work with CDC/Epi-X and CDC/Other towards completion architecture to<br />

support automated standards-based exchange of alerts between Epi-X and<br />

NYSDOH Commerce to enable NYSDOH HAN Alert Viewer to cascade alerts to<br />

its Commerce user domain.<br />

• Complete Recruitment of Individual Licensed Health Practitioners to<br />

NYSDOH HPN/HAN. As described below under volunteer rosters partner with<br />

the BNE Practitioner signup process for HPN to assure inclusion of licensed<br />

practitioners have active HPN account up to date contact information in ComDir<br />

to assure frontline healthcare personnel have access to the NYDOH HAN and<br />

can receive regular updates and advisories as a PHP event unfolds.<br />

• Drills. Drilling of the use of, and response to, the alert system should be<br />

conducted regularly with all partners at state, region, LHD and provider levels so<br />

that the technical aspects of using the system are understood by important users,<br />

and users are well practiced in sending and responding to notifications.<br />

b. Local Readiness to use Notification System<br />

In order for the emergency notification system to function most effectively, the<br />

following tasks will be accomplished as part of the LHD’s preparedness planning<br />

processes:<br />

February 7, 2006 13-19

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