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TB Notes NewsletterReturn to TB Notes 2, 2006 Main Menu This is an archived document. The links and content are no longer being updated. No. 2, 2006UPDATE FROM THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND STATISTICS BRANCHTechnical Challenges Delay TB NPP DeploymentCDC is developing the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) to improve its disease surveillance data reporting. As part of this effort, DTBE is collaborating with a contractor, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), to develop the Tuberculosis NEDSS Program Area Module Platform (TB NPP); this will replace the surveillance module in TIMS. Efforts to meet the initially projected deployment of the TB NPP by November 11, 2005, and to deliver an online demonstrate site by the end of 2005 were unsuccessful. However, through the successful completion of a certification and accreditation process, an operational NPP website with demonstration files is available for public viewing at http://216.27.172.78/training. The current project timeline for development and deployment of the TB NPP includes three phases of final functionality (beta) testing that started in spring 2006 and will end with the start of TB NPP production by summer 2006. Internal usability testing was also performed prior to the —Reported by Philip Baptiste, M.Ed.
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