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Integrated Health Information Systems
phone: (404) 639-7860
fax: (404) 639-7770

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30333
U.S.A
(404) 639-3311

NEDSS Archive

Overviews & Reports

•	Integrating Public Health Information & Surveillance Systems (Katz Report) (709 KB) 1995 - A report and recommendations from the CDC/ATSDR steering committee on public health information and surveillance system development.
•	Supporting Public Health Surveillance through the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) (30 KB) 1999 - Comprehensive description of the role of NEDSS in supporting public health surveillance.

Stakeholder Meetings

•	2nd Annual Stakeholders' Meeting - April 10-11, 2001 Links to final reports, meeting agendas and participants and associated documents.
•	1st Annual Stakeholders' Meeting - March 30-31, 2000 (256 KB)

Previous Standards Documents

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Common Information for Public Health Electronic Reporting (CIPHER) (zip file 3.7 MB)
2000 - Detailed standards for data elements required to support public health surveillance. This document was developed early in the NEDSS process and oriented toward a preliminary architecture. The data variable specifications for the core demographic variables in the Base System have superceded the CIPHER document.

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CDC User Interface Style Guide (zip file 1.7 MB)
2000 - Standards and guidelines for the development of Windows-and web-based surveillance applications at CDC.



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