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Section 13: Public Health Preparedness Informatics<br />

between avian and mammal illness and a subsequent human outbreak<br />

indicating viral shift.<br />

• NYSDAM are currently users of the NYSDOH IHANS tool for sending alerts<br />

and other level notifications. As veterinarians and their offices are being<br />

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

rollout, they will be part of the commerce system and their contact<br />

information will be available for updating and for use by the IHANS tool for<br />

sending notifications to veterinarians regarding urgent information.<br />

‣ Action items:<br />

o Routine sharing, linking and exchange of mammal/avian and human data<br />

is a critical component of influenza planning. NYSDOH will need to<br />

engage NYSDAM in an agreement for establishing an automated<br />

mechanism for exchange of data with NYSDOH health commerce system<br />

as related to enabling an integrated dashboard visualization of human and<br />

mammal/avian surveillance. Reports, data exchange protocols and data<br />

sharing agreements will need to be established with NYSDAM.<br />

o The HPN editorial board for practitioner outreach should include<br />

recruitment of volunteer practitioners and office practices in the process of<br />

reporting ILI symptoms in patients presenting at their practices.<br />

2. Heightened Surveillance<br />

• HERDS reporting systems deployed to health provider organizations and local<br />

health departments can be rapidly modified to change or add fields reported<br />

on and the intensity at which reports are made. These may be separately<br />

targeted to specific regions of the state and expanded statewide as needed. The<br />

IHANS system can rapidly alert the target organizations to begin reporting on<br />

new forms and increased frequency or reporting. The reports from these new<br />

forms are instantaneously available to state, regional and local health.<br />

• The Dashboard will be updated in real time with any changes made in the<br />

HERDS surveillance forms.<br />

• The IHANS system will be used to alert medical practitioners on the<br />

commerce HAN system to the increased need for surveillance and reporting<br />

on the HPN.<br />

‣ Action items:<br />

o Related NYSDOH program areas will need to define and design<br />

uniform HERDS electronic reporting forms to support enhanced<br />

surveillance across all providers and organizations. The forms must be<br />

defined in advance as part of the planning process for pandemic<br />

influenza event occurrence.<br />

o Provider and practitioner outreach will be needed to provide guidance<br />

and information on enhanced surveillance and reporting needs for<br />

pandemic influenza response using the commerce system.<br />

3. Case reporting, Contact tracking and Laboratory Testing<br />

• The CEDSS system supports statewide electronic <strong>Influenza</strong> case reporting by<br />

Local Health departments. CEDSS is integrated with clinical laboratory<br />

February 7, 2006 13-24

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