title: West Nile virus: a case study in how NY State Health Information infrastructure facilitates preparation and response to disease outbreaks.
abstract: New York's (NY) Health Information Network (HIN) provided timely access to West Nile Virus (WNV) data during the initial outbreak in the late Summer 1999. In December 1999, NY developed a plan to deal with WNV in 2000 that required an integrated surveillance system for humans, birds, mammals, and mosquitoes. The HIN infrastructure allowed NY to deploy this system statewide in three months. Local health departments throughout NY used the system to report, track, and retrieve surveillance data as WNV spread throughout NY in 2000. The HIN infrastructure includes partnerships, training/support, technical capacity and architecture similar to NEDSS as proposed by the US CDC.
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Healthcare Network Systems Management, Information Systems and Health Statistics Group, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York, USA.
authors.forename: I J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Gotham
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Eidson
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: H G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Napoli
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Sottolano
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Birkhead
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Morse
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000821:virology*; D003142:Communication; D004189:Disaster Planning; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D014901:West Nile Fever / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014902:West Nile virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*