The Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity
for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement, or ELC,
is CDC's national funding strategy
for combatting domestic infectious disease threats.
This crucial CDC investment helps fund epidemiologists,
support surveillance systems, modernize laboratory facilities,
and develop flexible health information networks
at state and local levels.
Communities across America benefit from actions taken
by U.S. public health departments to prevent, detect,
respond to, and control known
and emerging infectious diseases.
E L C provides funding
to California public health departments for staff
who operate health information technology used
for early detection of outbreaks.
Hi. I'm Deniz Dominguez with the California Department
of Public Health.
I'm here to talk
about transforming disease surveillance in California.
CalREDIE is a web-based disease reporting
and surveillance system.
It is an important tool that is helping state
and local public health authorities transform
and modernize disease surveillance
through the flexible data collection and the receipt
and processing of automated electronic data feeds
for improved public health response.
We can collect routine information from laboratories,
from providers, and public health investigators
on reportable communicable diseases such as measles
and food borne illness.
We can also rapidly implement reporting of emerging diseases
of public health concern, most recently Zika virus infection.
CalREDIE receives data from 300 laboratories,
nearly 25,000 records per week.
Public health records are incorporated directly
into the system using an automatic data exchange process.
CalREDIE has increased accessibility and usefulness
of data collected at local
and state levels while protecting
record confidentiality.
ELC funding has supported us through providing funding
for five staff, including a program manager,
an ELR project manager, two ELR analysts,
and a research assistant.
We've also utilized a licensing agreement
to build our message brokering service
which really laid the foundation
for electronic lab reporting in CalREDIE.
The California Department of Public Health
and E L C work together
to strengthen the health information infrastructure
in the Golden State.
For more information on CDC's national funding strategy
for preventing infectious disease threats,
visit c d c dot g o v slash E L C.
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