Public Health Informatics is a growing discipline at CSTE and encompasses broad fields such as electronic laboratory reporting, electronic disease surveillance, and developing and refining technical requirements, standards and overall architecture through collaborations and specialty workgroups. CSTE’s Public Health Informatics workgroups collaborate with CDC, ASTHO, NACCHO, APHL, PHDSC and other organizations to facilitate and increase information sharing within the informatics community.
CSTE’s Activities:
- NEDSS Assessment: Conduct nation-wide assessments of electronic disease surveillance systems and capabilities.
- State Reportable Conditions Assessment: Annually assesses the reporting requirements for conditions and diseases in each state and territory.
- CRSWg: Develop a framework for identifying common and disease-specific data elements for the review of generic and disease specific case report and investigation forms.
- ELR Workgroup: Annually assesses national progress and barriers to achieving electronic laboratory reporting in all states and territories.
- Propose CSTE Position Statements to modify the structure and method of reporting nationally-notifiable conditions to CDC.
- Participation in the Joint Public Health Informatics Taskforce.
CSTE National Office Contact
Lisa Ferland, MPH
Phone (770) 458-3811
lferland@cste.org