Pandemic Influenza Plan - Questar III

Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics
In order to assure adequate volunteer capacity to exercise the Informatics
infrastructure the agency will engage in the following planning and preparedness
activities
‣ Action items:
• Assure ongoing use of HPN by Individual Licensed Medical Professionals
(LMPs). To assure that LMPs return to and use the HPN on a frequent basis the
NYSDOH will engage in a process to add value and interest for LMPs in
accessing the HPN. This is essential to assuring account viability and knowledge
of use of the HPN. The PAG and PHP units will:
o Establish an HPN Editorial Board staffed by NYSDOH lead program
experts in Wadsworth, Community Health, Environmental Health,
Zoonoses Program to identify content of interest to practitioners, post it
on the HPN
o Use the alert system to notify practitioners of new postings on HAN and
materials of interest on commerce
o Provide electronic training courses on the HPN as in pandemic flu
preparedness and hot topics such as avian influenza.
o Develop a process to allow CMEs to be provided for use of the HPN.
• Promotion of Volunteer Sign Up. PHP program and BNE will partner with state
and local professional societies to promote volunteer sign-up as part of the HPN
registration process for prescription pad registration.
• Maintenance of Up to Date Contact Information for Practitioners in
ComDir. ComDir will be the authoritative source of practitioner contact
information. Assurance of accurate and up to date contact information in ComDir
will be achieved by assuring practitioners’ offices are brought on to HPN as
organizations and that they have coordinators who update contact information on
behalf of the practice. Utilizing the notification system to deliver alerts, advisories
and informational messages describing available content of interest will be an
incentive to practitioners to keep their accounts active and contact information up
to date. Commerce logins will be modified to require review/update of contact
information every 3 months.
• Program development of HERDS Tracking Forms. NYSDOH PHP program
will work with BHNSM to develop the required HERDS forms for volunteer
resource deployment, needs and availability reporting by LHDs and health
facilities.
6. Information and Data Sharing and Linkage
HERDS PHP surveys of LHDs demonstrate that they share case information with
other LHDs and hospitals. NYSDOH has established regional, cross jurisdictional
executive dashboard system on Commerce that was used in support of the Republican
National Convention planning and preparedness. The system provides regional access
to linked data sets across all data systems within the commerce information domain
that relate to support of planning, preparedness, surveillance and response for a PHP
event. Data sharing agreements will be implemented to facilitate active statewide
and/or regional cross-jurisdiction participation in the dashboard system for data
sharing, visualization and linkage in a widespread PHP event. PHP Program, house
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