National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) PDF

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Your Guide To A + National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) ‫الربنامج الوطني اإللكرتوين لنظم رصد األمراض‬ z Definition `...

National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Your Guide To A + National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) ‫الربنامج الوطني اإللكرتوين لنظم رصد األمراض‬ z Definition ` NEDSS is an acronym for the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System. ` It is an initiative to promote data and information system standards for disease surveillance. ` Surveillance systems collect and monitor data for disease trends and/or outbreaks. ` Public health personnel use this data to protect the nation’s health. ` The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) facilitates electronically transferring public health surveillance data from the healthcare system to public health departments z Goal of NEDSS: 1. To facilitate the electronic transfer of information needed for public health from clinical information systems 2. To reduce provider burden in the provision of information 3. To eliminate the need to process paper report 4. To enhance both the timeliness and quality of information provided. ¬ The Egypt National Disease Surveillance is a routine system established in 2002. ¬ The system electronically reports on 55 infectious diseases. ¬ List Of Infectious Diseases Under National Surveillance According to the Reporting Time 2024 1 Semester 5 2024 / 2025  A PLUS in HCS  Community Medicine Your Guide To A + ¬ The diseases are classified into 2 groups: A) Group A: Imediate reporting; examples (meningitis, hemorrhagic fevers, acute flaccid paralysis, cholera) A) Group B: Reporting within 24 hours; examples (hepatitis, chicken pox,tuberculosis, brucellosis). 2 3rd Year 2024 / 2025 National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) Your Guide To A + z Levels: A) Reporting and Detecting Level Electronic reporting Non Electronic reporting to health districts B) Directorate level NEDSS data base team C) Central level General Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance Central Administration of Prevention Affairs z NEDSS Steps: 1. The process begins with reporting of a reportable disease using the NEDSS software program or paper reporting in centers having no access to NEDSS. 2. In electronic reporting, Data are automatically stored in a file for future transmission, in case of paper reporting NEDSS team in directorate enter data to the system. 3. Data is analyzed and decision is taken by central level. 3 Semester 5 2024 / 2025