The NEDSS Messaging Solution (NMS) – Sustaining a Network for Public Health Electronic Messaging

Title The NEDSS Messaging Solution (NMS) – Sustaining a Network for Public Health Electronic Messaging Author(s): Arunkumar Srinivasan1, Bradley Carlson 2, Andrey Yeatts 2, C. Scott Danos 1, Jennifer Ward 1, Robbin Taylor 3, Antonio DaSilva 3 1 Division for Integrated Surveillance Systems and Service, NCPHI, CDC 2 Michigan State Department of Health and Human Services 3 SAIC Abstract text As the growing momentum towards wider adoption of Electronic Lab Results (ELR) continues its transformative effect on public health, the NEDSS Messaging Solution (NMS) continues its expansion across the public health community. NMS is a national CDC initiative to establish self-sustaining capacity for standards-based electronic messaging among public health partners. NMS encompasses five functional areas: software, support, collaboration, funding and technical assistance. As of June 2007, CDC has deployed the Message Subscription Service (MSS) application at 12 states. In addition, 95 stakeholders from participating state and federal organizations have received training. CDC continues to support these initial partners, and efforts are underway to deploy and train additional states in the next several months. Participants will learn how NMS facilitates the expansion of a sustainable electronic messaging system among public health partners. Taking the perspective of one state's experience with adopting MSS, the presentation will highlight how the State of Michigan uses NMS to enhance its ability to process and route non-standardized ELR. Participants will learn how Michigan worked with CDC to build capacity and efficiency in the management and utilization of ELR, and gain insight into Michigan's deployment and production experience – lessons they can apply towards their own processes and systems.