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Overview
Healthcare Professionals
Public Health Surveillance & Epidemiology
Surveillance and epidemiologic capacities allow enhanced response:
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By rapidly detecting a terrorist event through a highly functioning, mandatory reportable disease surveillance system.
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Through maintenance of a system to receive and evaluate urgent disease reports and to communicate and respond to the clinical or laboratory reporter regarding reports from all parts of the state and local public health jurisdictions on a 24-hour-per-day, 7-day-a-week basis.
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By providing ongoing specialized disease surveillance and epidemiologic training for public health, clinical and other healthcare professionals to develop subject matter expertise within the public health system for disease detection, contact tracing and outbreak analysis.
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By educating and providing feedback to reporting sources in all jurisdictions about notifiable diseases, conditions, syndromes and their clinical presentations and reporting requirements and procedures, including those conditions and syndromes that could indicate a terrorist event.
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By coordination with local public health agencies, applying information technology according to established specifications, including NEDSS development or the NEDSS Base System, to develop or enhance electronic applications
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