Value Proposition and End-to-End Design Plan for a Knowledgebase of State Reportable and Nationally Notifiable Conditions

CDC and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists have decided to collaborate on the development of a Knowledgebase of State Reportable and Nationally Notifiable Conditions (KSNC) to help advance and support notifiable disease surveillance in the U.S. The KSNC functions as a repository facilitating quick access to various domains of notifiable condition information to support public health surveillance. The KSNC models information pertaining to public health reporting requirements, case reporting criteria, case notification criteria, case detection algorithms, and case reporting forms. The KSNC is designed to be comprehensive and authoritative, continually updated, available 24/7 on the Internet, provide results that are human- and machine-readable, and provide a secure environment for entering information and authoritative. This session will review the various benefits the KSNC would provide to public health collaborators and stakeholders. In addition, this session will review the end-to-end design plan being proposed for the KSNC using a phased extensible architecture approach, based on the National Health Information Network (NHIN) Gateway.