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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

‣ LHD Action items:<br />

• Account Maintenance and Recruitment. LHDs should assure that all public<br />

health preparedness personnel have their own, active Commerce accounts and that<br />

addition of local response partners occurs through the DOC-L process.<br />

• Training. LHDs should appropriate personnel, i.e., communicable disease,<br />

emergency response, and administrative staff attend the ongoing Commerce<br />

strategic rollout sessions where they are being provided training on the use of the<br />

tools for alerting:<br />

o the use of the persons emergency contact screens in the communications<br />

directory for maintaining 24/7 emergency and business contact information,<br />

o use of the list tool, for creating predefined contact lists for specific purposes<br />

which will help to expedite the alerting process during a pandemic, and<br />

finally,<br />

o use of the notification system itself for creating open or targeted HAN<br />

postings and for sending out notifications to specific roles and contact lists.<br />

• Completion of Alerting Certification Process. LHDs should complete<br />

certification process for use of the alert system and use it on a routine basis.<br />

• 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 />

5. Volunteer Rosters<br />

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

responsibility for oversight of the Professional Medical Volunteer and NYSDOH<br />

emergency contact and volunteer database system. The Bureau of Narcotics<br />

Enforcement (BNE) has program responsibility for recruitment and processing<br />

licensed prescribing practitioners to the commerce system. PHP is responsible for<br />

recruitment of non-prescribing practitioners (i.e., nurses) to the commerce system.<br />

BHNSM is responsible for working with PHP program to migrate the existing<br />

commerce volunteer database to compliance with the Emergency System for Advance<br />

Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) Program. The Public<br />

Affairs Group (PAG) and PHP are responsible for promotion of use of the commerce<br />

system by practitioners for preparedness and volunteer signup.<br />

The Professional Medical Volunteer database will provide a roster of medical<br />

volunteers for use by local and State Health for deployment in support of surge.<br />

IHANS will provide the alerting functionality to notify volunteers of activation.<br />

HERDS forms will be used to track requests for and arrival of volunteer resources at<br />

the county or facility level. The Commerce HERDS GIS will enable statewide spatial<br />

visualization of medical staff assets deployed as volunteers, facilities/counties with<br />

needs and those with resources available. Reporting out to external federal<br />

organizations, processes will occur using existing automated messaging systems<br />

within Commerce based on CDC PHIN/MS message transport standards and<br />

standardized XML message content as required.<br />

February 7, 2006 13-20

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