Iowa Disease Surveillance System (IDSS)

The Iowa Disease Surveillance System (IDSS) enables local public health, hospitals, laboratories, and IDPH to collaborate electronically as they perform disease reporting and surveillance activities across the state. IDSS was first implemented in the Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology (CADE) in October 2008 and is now widely used by hospital, laboratories, and public health agencies statewide.

 

 

 

Policy

• IDSS Security and Confidentiality Policy  

Meaningful Use for Electronic Laboratory Reporting (ELR)

Current status: As of Monday March 26th, 2012, IDPH is accepting test messages constructed using the IDPH Implementation Guide and ELR Constrained profile V1.03 posted below. See the guide for the specific process.

IDPH and the State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) are in the process of upgrading the existing ELR connection to comply with the Meaningful Use HL7 2.5.1 message standard. Fourteen LIMS modules are either in the validation process or in Production which yield results for 40 conditions.

Submission of Reportable Lab Results (electronic laboratory reporting or ELR) objective: capability to submit electronic data on reportable (as required by state or local law) lab results to PH agencies and actual submission in accordance with applicable law and practice.

Achieving Meaningful Use Stage 1 Objective

• IDPH Implementation Guide and ELR Constrained Profile V1.04.01  
• IDPH SmartLab Registration  
• LOINC and SNOMED Encoding Guidance  
• MQF Known Errors V2  

Meaningful Use Workshop #3

• Questions and Answers  
• Rules Changes - High Level Overview of ELR Presentation  
• DiagnosisOne SmartLab Presentation  
• What's Next - Onboarding Presentation  

Meaningful Use Workshop #2

• Meaningful Use for ELR Workshop 2 Webinar 8/2/12  
• Session 1 - Achieving the Stage 1 Objective  
• The Handout - Meaningful Use for ELR Workshop 8/2/12  
• Session 2 - Connecting to the IHIN and Direct Messaging  

Meaningful Use Workshop #1

• Objectives for the Workshop Presentation  
• Meaningful Use Overview and IDPH Update Presentation  
• Iowa Health Information Network Update Presentation  
• IDPH Electronic Laboratory Reporting Implementation Process Presentation  
• IDPH Implementation Guide & ELR Constrained Profile Presentation  
• PHIN VADS and RCMT Presentation  
• MQF Demo Presentation  
• What's Next Presentation  
• Lab Interoperability, the HIE, and Meaningful Use for ELR Presentation  
• Public Health ELR for Meaningful Use Survey  

Meaningful Use for Public Health Surveillance (Syndromic Surveillance)

Objective: Capability to submit electronic syndromic surveillance data to PH agencies and actual submission in accordance with applicable law and practice.

Current status: Iowa is not preparing to receive syndromic surveillance data at this time.

• If you are an eligible professional (EP), are only required to submit syndromic surveillance data for Meaningful Use, and need attestation documentation related to IDPH readiness for the Meaningful Use Syndromic Surveillance objective, see the letter posted at the following web location: http://www.iowaehealth.org/documents/resource/68.pdf

News

• IDSS Security Token Update (10/2011)  
• IDSS 2011 Fall Update  
• IDSS Quarterly Archive
• IDSS Update - Region 4 June 2010  
• IDSS 2009 Fall Update  

Other Resources

• Installing IDSS Instructions  
• IDSS On-Line Training Instructions  
• IDSS New Release April 29, 2013  
• IDSS March 12th Release and Windows 7 / Vista  
• Re-registering the IDSS Application  
• IDSS Common and Rare Diseases  
• STD Reporting Q&A  
• Generating the Local Outstanding Follow-up Report  
• Addressing an Invalid IDSS Registration  
• Iowa Disease Surveillance System Report Matrix  

For more information contact:

John Satre
IDSS Coordinator
Iowa Department of Public Health
Lucas State Office Bldg.
321 E. 12th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0075
(515) 229-0417

You may also use the "Contact Us" page to submit comments or questions online.