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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

• Webinar access<br />

• Cross jurisdictional communications directory contact lookup<br />

B. Surveillance<br />

1. Routine surveillance and Event detection<br />

• Community-Acquired <strong>Influenza</strong>. All hospitals in NY state report weekly<br />

through HERDS on patients (and associated age demographics) admitted with<br />

laboratory-confirmed influenza (Type A, B, or Unspecified). This information<br />

is available on commerce as live data feeds to local health, state and regional<br />

offices as soon as it is reported by Facilities. HERDS GIS system provides a<br />

spatial visualization of these live data feeds. ECLRS clinical lab test results<br />

for influenza are also monitored and tracked.<br />

‣ Action items:<br />

o Extend HERDS instances to primary care clinics, home health agencies<br />

and adult care facilities to enable routine influenza surveillance at these<br />

facility types.<br />

• Facility-Acquired (Nosocomial) <strong>Influenza</strong> and ILI Outbreaks. Nosocomialacquired<br />

infection outbreaks (including <strong>Influenza</strong> ILI) are reported on a<br />

routine basis by hospitals and long-term care. The data is available in real time<br />

via the NORA system on commerce to LHDs, state and regional offices.<br />

• Syndromic Surveillance. Time series and trends in OTC (RODS data)<br />

medications and Medicaid prescription data is monitored statewide on an<br />

ongoing basis.<br />

• Practitioner Surveillance. The BNE practitioner recruitment process for BNE<br />

and medical volunteers can be leveraged to include recruitment of volunteer<br />

sentinel physician ILI reporting through the commerce system.<br />

• Avian and Animal Surveillance. The statewide arbovirus reporting system<br />

reporting system supports ad hoc reporting of symptoms and deaths of<br />

mammals and birds. This system can be adapted for reporting of influenza<br />

symptoms/events within these populations. As veterinarians and their offices<br />

are being brought onto commerce as part of the BNE prescription pad<br />

registration rollout, they will be part of the commerce system and available to<br />

report to the NYSDOH reporting system. The NYS Department of Agriculture<br />

and Markets operates a separate site for veterinary reporting, the New York<br />

State Animal Incident Notification and Tracking System (NYSAINTS).<br />

• The NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) operates its<br />

own site for veterinary reporting, the New York State Animal Incident<br />

Notification and Tracking System (NYSAINTS) and has been designated as the<br />

point of collection for data regarding symptoms and death in mammal and<br />

wild bird populations, as well as for poultry flocks. A process for<br />

automatically transferring summary data from NYSAINTS to NYSDOH<br />

Commerce data visualization tools for posting on the executive dashboard will<br />

enable decisions of where intense epidemiological human case surveillance<br />

may need to be focused and provide data for analyzing the relationship<br />

February 7, 2006 13-23

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