Abstract
Integrated Human-Animal Disease Surveillance
Highlights
In the fall of 2001, staff at the Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) began gathering requirements for a system to replace the existing electronic system (LHDSURV)
While a functional system for many years, it was clear that LHDSURV was inadequate to address several surveillance realities, including the fact that it was one of the multitude of incompatible disease specific systems that currently existed, data in the system was consistently incomplete and delayed, it was not designed to minimize the burden on health care system to report disease and it lacked state-of-the-art information technology resources
Over the past two years, three TB trainings approved by the Michigan Nurses Association (MNA) have been developed for health care professionals, both public and private
Summary
Jim Collins, R.S., M.P.H. and Brad Carlson, M.P.H. Public health surveillance is the cornerstone of public health decision-making and practice. State and local levels there are in existence more that 100 systems for public health surveillance. The Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS) is an initiative that avails itself of the use of data and information system standards to advance the development of an efficient, integrated, and interoperable surveillance system that will communicate effectively at federal, state and local levels. The MDSS has been designed to provide a web-based disease surveillance application that allows for electronic capture of disease data, case assignment and tracking, addition of public health case investigation data, and data export. This system will improve the medical and epidemiological management of the case investigations and enhance public health capacity.
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