Puget Sound Infectious Disease Tracking System
Abstract
This study is a community-based, essentially an observational study, in conjunction with local public health authorities across a multi- jurisdictional region. Purpose: The purpose is to develop feasible, useful syndromic surveillance capabilities that will improve CONUS force protection, and support local public health authorities. The approach is to design a system to monitor military bases and the communities surrounding military bases, and to facilitate military/civilian cooperation. Scope: The proposed work will characterize the feasibility of reporting in a variety of settings and implementation models; understand the relative utility of data gathered for both surveillance and detection; and develop feasible technical and policy approaches to implementing bi-directional data exchange between civilian and military health systems. Major findings to date: There is no current working syndromic surveillance system that has a functional data catch-up and roll-back process. A further finding is that Local Health Jurisdictions (LHJ's) have different practices for how they use existing systems. One LHJ uses the EARS system and primarily examines all interesting ER visits while other LHJ's (and the major syndromic surveillance systems) focus primarily on alerts. Up-to-date report - results/significance: The inconsistency of use of existing systems illustrates the need for flexibility in designing systems for multiple uses.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 2005
- Accession Number
- ADA442973
Entities
People
- Peter J. Dunbar