NYS (excluding NYC) has a very robust Communicable Disease Electronic Surveillance System (CDESS). This system provides disease specific modules, as well as a tracking system for contacts, and a perinatal infant tracking system. This system provides an easy way for users to quickly download a file with all of their data.
NYS (excluding NYC) tracks, on average, 300 infants of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) positive mothers annually. CDESS provides an infant tracking module for local health departments (LHDs) to enter and monitor vaccine information, add multiple infants per mother, and track patient movement and loss to follow-up. The tool allows LHDs to analyze infants’ data by birth year cohort, with all of their current vaccination and serology information available in one record.
In 2013 and 2014, more than 13,000 cases of gonorrhea were reported to CDESS in NYS (excluding NYC). From November 2013 through May 2014, only 61% of cases were adequately treated with a regimen recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) STD Treatment Guidelines for Gonorrhea , and 29% were missing treatment information. The CDESS system allows the LHDs to track patients who have inadequate and/or missing treatment information.
Objective
Improved methods for user analysis of communicable disease surveillance data in New York State (NYS), excluding New York City (NYC).