NEDSS Base System: Functional and Technical Details
Functionality
To meet the needs of public health surveillance, the NEDSS Base System (NBS) provides robust functionality that complements public health practice:
- Patient-centric model
- Virtual File that allows all public health events for a patient to be viewed from one central location
- Support for over 140 different diseases and conditions, including hepatitis, bacterial meningitis and invasive respiratory diseases, general communicable diseases, vaccine preventable diseases, and food-borne and diarrheal diseases
- Automated entry of electronic laboratory reports
- Data entry performed near data sources, drastically reducing reporting time while improving data quality
Technical Overview
The rich functionality of the NEDSS Base System is supported by a scalable, enterprise-caliber architecture, featuring:
- Best-of-breed J2EE-based technologies
- Open source approach consistent with OMG, W3 Consortium, Apache Software Foundation and Health Level 7 (HL7)
- Transactional databases designed to be compliant with the HL7 Reference Information Model (RIM) and Public Health Conceptual Data Model
- Analytic database designed to promote data access and analysis, visualization and reporting
- Robust security model utilizing Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- Enterprise services for session management, data concurrency, context management and audit trail on all records and geocoding