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What is it? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vision is to remove the stovepipes from existing public health information systems and replace them with an interoperable and scaleable information management infrastructure. At the core of that vision is the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), an integrated application architecture designed to manage the capture, dissemination, and reporting of notifiable disease data in an efficient and timely manner. NEDSS employs standardized code sets for tracking and analysis, as well as provides support for secure messaging among the various Independent, Local, State and Federal institutions that use health data. This includes health care providers, laboratories, public health departments, and other syndromic surveillance data sources. The Public Health Information Network (PHIN) expands upon the NEDSS approach of standards-based systems integration and applies it to other business processes and functions of the public health information life-cycle. PHIN will enable automated and real-time data flow, computer assisted analysis, program area decision support, professional collaboration, and rapid dissemination of information to public health organizations, the clinical care community, and the public through a common integrated and standards-based framework for public health systems and operations. What's the Intent? The principal intent of NEDSS is to decrease the amount of associated reporting time and increase the accuracy and relevancy of the public health data for detecting and responding to disease-related incidents or situations that threaten the health and safety of the nation's citizenry. By integrating data sources, the NEDSS architecture will provide a tool for improved decision making. Consequently, NEDSS is a prime component within the PHIN architectural model. Implementation of the PHIN architecture will further improve the ability of the public health community to readily access clinical data for analysis in a seamless fashion, develop linkages that support the continuous detection and evaluation of threats across jurisdictions, and achieve enhanced information flow to the public and decision support to public health professionals. Functional Guidelines for PHIN/NEDSS Components:
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