BACKGROUND: Minnesota is one of several jurisdictions (others include CT, MA, NC, NYC, SD) using the Maven disease surveillance and case management system. Although the core functionality of Maven is the same for all jurisdictions, in Minnesota we have been able to utilize the Minnesota Electronic Disease Surveillance System (MEDSS) to produce newly developed Message Mapping Guides (MMG) to CDC. Minnesota participated as a pilot state for the Generic v2.0 and Hepatitis MMGs.
METHODS: Infrastructure design and development was conducting with a team from APHL and Minnesota program and IT staff. We used Maven's capabilities to generate denormalized tables along with a data warehouse, scripts, and a data transformation engine (Rhapsody) to translate and transform the MEDSS surveillance data into the proper MMG format.
RESULTS: Minnesota will able to transmit surveillance data to CDC in an HL7 format that meets the MMG standards for Generic v2.0 and Hepatitis. This data translation and transformation is seamless to the MEDSS end user. We were able to develop these MMGs without drastically altering our existing Maven modeling and configuration.
CONCLUSIONS: Minnesota has developed a technical infrastructure and utilized existing Maven capabilities to generate Generic v2.0 and Hepatitis MMGs. Maven denormalized tables coupled with the data translation and transformation abilities of Rhapsody enabled this development without needing to purchase additional software. The APHL team was critical in the design and implementation of the technical infrastructure and data translation for this project.