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Syndromic Surveillance
North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) is capable of accepting electronic Syndromic Surveillance from eligible hospitals. NC DPH is not requesting and will not receive electronic syndromic surveillance from eligible professionals. If ongoing submission of syndromic surveillance data was already achieved by an eligible hospital for an electronic health record (EHR) reporting period in a prior year and continues throughout the EHR reporting period using North Carolina Hospital Emergency Surveillance System (NCHESS), registration of intent for the syndromic surveillance measure is not required. If you are unsure if your hospital has achieved successful ongoing submission of production syndromic surveillance data, please contact the North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA).
Currently all civilian North Carolina hospitals operating a 24/7 emergency department are
required to contribute data for syndromic surveillance to NCHESS. NCHESS data are then
incorporated into North Carolina's statewide syndromic surveillance system, NC DETECT 
.
Syndromic surveillance reporting from emergency departments is mandated by North
Carolina General Statute ยง 130A-480 which
requires that "For the purpose of ensuring the protection of the public health, the State
Health Director shall develop a syndromic surveillance program for hospital emergency
departments in order to detect and investigate public health threats that may result from (i) a
terrorist incident using nuclear, biological, or chemical agents or (ii) an epidemic or
infectious, communicable, or other disease."
NCHESS is the designated pathway for eligible hospitals to meet the meaningful use Syndromic
Surveillance objective as part of the Medicare
and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs and
provides hospital-wide syndromic surveillance using 2014 Edition Meaningful Use technology
certified for 170.302(l) public health surveillance by the Drummond Group. The name of the
certified product is “Truven Health Analytics Unify Data Management Platform,” and
the CHPL product number is 08022013-1789-1.
The end result will be that all syndromic surveillance data submitted to NC DPH by eligible hospitals will be generated by a certified EHR and will be submitted via a certified complete EHR or EHR module.
The message testing for Meaningful Use will be provided by NCHA. Please contact the NCHA Help Desk with questions about Syndromic Surveillance Meaningful Use objectives.
