Griffin Jacqueline

New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) implemented a Communicable Disease Electronic Surveillance System (CDESS), a single and secure application used by 57 local health departments (LHDs), hospital infection control programs and NYSDOH staff to collect, integrate, analyze, and report data for infectious disease surveillance. New York State Immunization Information System (NYSIIS) is a mandated application for providers to report all vaccinations of persons < 19 years old residing in New York State (excluding New York City). Currently, LHD staff must manually search NYSIIS for vaccine preventable disease case investigations and re-enter the immunization histories into CDESS. NYSIIS has built a HL7 query functionality which can be used to automate the data exchange between NYSIIS and CDESS.

Objective

To establish the infrastructure to provide a linkage between the immunization registry and disease surveillance system using standard for data exchange.

There were several stand-alone vector surveillance applications being used by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) to support the reporting of mosquito, bird, and mammal surveillance and infection information implemented in early 2000s in response to West Nile virus. In subsequent years, the Electronic Clinical Laboratory Reporting System (ECLRS) and the Communicable Disease Electronic Surveillance System (CDESS) were developed and integrated to be used for surveillance and investigations of human infectious diseases and management of outbreaks.

An integrated vector surveillance system project was proposed to address the migration of the stand-alone vector surveillance applications into a streamlined, consolidated solution to support operational, management, and technical needs by using the national standards with the existing resources and technical environment.

Objective

To develop a mosquito surveillance module to collect mosquito information testing for West Nile, East Equine Encephalitis (EEE) and Zika viruses using national standards. To provide a common set of data for local health departments (LHDs) and state users to report and share information. To monitor the type of mosquito species that carry diseases.