Key Objectives:
The purpose of this round table is to hear from state and local health jurisdictions about CDC’s efforts to provide more coordinated and integrated funding and technical assistance for surveillance activities.
Brief Summary:
Discussants: Paula Yoon1, Bob Pinner2, Jason Hall2, Michele Hoover1, Lesliann Helmus1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services; 2 National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. Notifiable disease surveillance, electronic laboratory reporting, and syndromic surveillance are major components of CDC’s 2014 Surveillance Strategy. In addition to overhauling some of the information technology (IT) infrastructure for these systems, CDC programs have been working together to provide a more integrated approach to funding and technical assistance for participating state and local jurisdictions. The aim of CDC’s support is to help jurisdictions build capacity to maintain their integrated surveillance systems, implement electronic lab reporting and the new National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System (NNDSS) message mapping guides, and maintain data transmission and messaging capacity whether it is for syndromic surveillance or immunization registries. The purpose of this round table is to hear from state and local health jurisdictions about CDC’s efforts to provide more coordinated and integrated funding and technical assistance for surveillance activities. What is working and what more can be done? What are the critical IT and informatics challenges that jurisdictions encounter when setting up or maintaining a system? What are the IT or programmatic challenges to implementing new message mapping guides or expanding electronic laboratory reporting? How can expertise in one state be leveraged by another state? Is there a role for CDC to coordinate or offer solutions that can be shared across jurisdictions? Do the funds provided through the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) and National Syndromic Surveillance (NSSP) cooperative agreements offer enough flexibility to account for the wide variation in infrastructure across jurisdictions? Join us for this round table discussion to share your thoughts, concerns, and ideas for improving CDC’s support for integrated disease surveillance in state and local health agencies.