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CDC, Military Health System Partner To Track Disease Outbreaks

The Military Health System and CDC are partnering on a project in which CDC will use military sick call data to track outbreaks of infectious diseases, Government Health IT reports.

CDC receives records on individual clinic visits every four hours via File Transfer Protocol. The data allow the agency to track seasonal influenza and other disease, according to CDC Director Julie Gerberding.

MHS medical treatment facilities send Standard Ambulatory Data Records to its data repository, where records are processed to eliminate any individual's identifiable information. CDC then uses embedded software to transform the data into a form that is acceptable for delivery.

MHS' data repository is protected with access controls, Government Health IT reports.

"By aggregating the [Department of Defense] records into population-level data, we are able to develop situational awareness of infectious disease outbreaks," Gerberding said (Buxbaum, Government Health IT, 3/6).