CDC Surveillance Strategy Innovation Project Portfolio
The CDC Health Information Innovation Consortium (CHIIC) serves as a channel for innovative projects in CDC programs in collaboration with State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial agencies.
This project portfolio provides information on CDC’s Surveillance Strategy Innovation awarded projects, project ideas, and results from awarded projects. Project ideas are projects that were submitted but not selected for funding. Even though project ideas were not selected for funding, all projects are valuable learning opportunities for public health programs. As projects complete, lessons learned will be collected and added to the project descriptions.
Project proposals are shared to help foster collaboration among public health programs
2016
Awarded projects:
- A SMART App To Track And Report Stroke Cases To Reduce Readmissions (NCCDPHP); Keywords: SMART, HL7, FHIR, EHR, Coverdell, Stroke Registry, Core Data Elements, Technical Standards, API
- To view the project results, click here
- Innovative Surveillance and Assessment Techniques to Inform STD and HIV Prevention Action (NCHHSTP); Keywords: HIV, STD/STI, Syphilis, Men who have sex with men, Qualitative data
Project ideas*:
- Can State Health Departments Use All-Payer Claims Data for Chronic Disease Surveillance? (NCCDPHP); Keywords: Chronic Disease Surveillance, Claims data
- Active BACTerial Core surveillance FACTs (BACT FACTs): An interactive, web-based tool to analyze, visualize and share ABCs data (NCEZID); Keywords: Interactive, Web-based, Visualization tool
- Improving the availability and quality of surveillance data on foster care youth (NCBDDD); Keywords: Foster care, Surveillance, Child welfare, Data linkage
- Pilot implementation of Iris for coding of urban adult deaths in Nairobi (CGH); Keywords: Cause of death, International Classification of Diseases, Epidemiological monitoring, HIV
- A Cloud Based Analytics Approach for EHR based Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Surveillance; Keywords: Clinical Data Warehouse, Apervita, CDW Adapter, Gateway, Cardiovascular Disease Algorithms, EHR, HL7, Data Elements, Technical Standards
- Community-based Verbal Autopsy linked to Kenya’s Civil Registration and Vital Statistics System; Keywords: Verbal autopsy, mortality surveillance, vital statistics, civil registration
- Creating an Interactive R Shiny Data Visualization Application to Facilitate Global Maternal Death Surveillance and Response (MDSR) System Reporting; Keywords: surveillance, maternal mortality, mapping, R Shiny, dashboard, visualization, MDSR
- Using and Training AccessMod 5 in Travel Catchment Area Visualization for Maternal Mortality; Keywords: travel catchment areas, maternal mortality, mapping, R Shiny, AccessMod, health services coverage
In 2015, the Office of Public Health Scientific Services (OPHSS) was able to sponsor 5 out of 25 submitted great project ideas.
2015
Awarded projects:
- Proof of Concept and Technology for Hosting Bio-Surveillance Systems in the Amazon Infrastructure Cloud (NCHHSTP); Keywords: Outbreak, Surveillance, NGS, Cloud, HPC, Scalability
To view the project results, click here - Create and Pilot a FHIR Vocabulary Server (NCEZID); Keywords: Vocabulary, FHIR, Standardization, Authoring, API
- U.S. – Mexico Border Early Warning Disease Surveillance for Dengue and Chikungunya (NCEZID); Keywords: Participatory surveillance, Dengue, Chikungunya
To view the project results, click here - Exploring Practice-Level Analytic Solutions for Smaller Health Care Practices that Support Population-Level Analytics (NCCDPHP); Keywords: Population health management, Electronic Health Record
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Project ideas*:
- A Web Service for Communicating Vaccine Safety Surveillance Information on Adverse Events Following Vaccination to Partners (NCEZID); Keywords: Web Service, Surveillance, Vaccine Safety, Shared Data, Graphical Visualization, Signal Detection
- Development of a Data Query and Visualization Tool for Occupational Health Statistics (NIOSH); Keywords: Charts, Data query, Fatalities, Illnesses, Industries, Injuries, Occupations, Surveillance, Visualization
- Exploration of Ontological Management of Reportable Events to Facilitate Surveillance (CSELS); Keywords: Reportable event, ontology, data integration, national surveillance
- Interactive Public Reporting of National Fertility Clinic Success Rates (NCCDPHP); Keywords: Data visualization, data display, surveillance system
- Validation of ESPnet for use as an alternative to Lyme Disease Surveillance in Massachusetts (NCEZID); Keywords: Lyme disease, Electronic Health Records, data extraction tool, alternative surveillance
- Histopathology-based Surveillance for Mucormycosis (NCEZID); Keywords: Mold surveillance, Histopathology, Mucormycosis
- NCEZID Surveillance Architecture Decision Support System (SADSS), Phase I (NCEZID); Keywords: Decision Support, Risk Management, Business Capability, Business Agility, Standardization, Process Improvement, Service Orientation, Reusability, Interoperability, Flexibility, Adaptability
- FoodNet Geocoding to Address Disparities in Foodborne Illness (NCEZID); Keywords: FoodNet, geospatial, health disparities
- FoodNet Fast Data Access (NCEZID); Keywords: FoodNet, surveillance
- Dashboard to Monitor Opioid Prescriptions and Drug Overdose Related Morbidity and Mortality (NCIPC); Keywords: Query System, Prescription drug overdose
- Operation Dragon Fire (OPHPR); Keywords: Data overload, aggregation, information sharing
2014
In 2014, OPHSS was able to sponsor 9 out of 33 submitted great project ideas.
Awarded projects (9):
- Tracking Population Movement in Emergencies using Mobile Phone Network Data (CGH); Keywords: Surveillance, Population, Migration, Emergency, Disaster, Mobile, mHealth, Displacement
- Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Interoperability Pilot Site Project (NCBDDD); Keywords: Surveillance, Interoperability Standards, ONC S&I Framework, EHR, Data Quality
To view the project results, click here. - Development of Data Technical Standards and Gap Analysis and for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry 30 day Follow-Up Data (NCCDPHP); Keywords: Coverdell, Stroke, Registry, Data Standards, Technical Standards, Data Specifications, and Technical Specifications
*New To view the project results, click here. - Emerging Infection Program Web Service (NCEZID); Keywords: Shared Service, Web Service, Surveillance, Secure Transport, Interoperability;
To view the project results, click here. - Synthetic Patient Dataset for the Determination of Ventilator-Associated Events in Electronic Health Record Systems (NCEZID); Keywords: Ventilator Associated Events, Healthcare Associated Infections, Electronic Health Record systems;
To view the project methodology, results and opportunities for reuse in public health, click here.
*To view the project results, click here. - STD Analysis and Visualization Tool (SAViT) (NCHHSTP); Keywords: STD, Analysis, Visualization
“To view the project results, click here - Dietary supplement imaging in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NCHS); Keywords: Data Collection, Imaging, Optical Character Recognition
*New To view the project results, click here. - NCHHSTP Mobile Atlas (NMA) (NCHHSTP);Keywords: Maps, Analysis, Visualization, Atlas, HIV, STD, TB, Hepatitis;
*To view the project results, click here. - NARMS Now: Human Data (NCEZID); Keywords: Antimicrobial Resistance, Visualization Tools, Graphical Displays, Data Download
*Several news articles were written about this project:
Time magazine, click here.
Discovery.com, click here.
Tech Insider, click here. *To view the project results, click here.
Project ideas* (15 out of 24):
- Making Fertility Clinic Success Rates Data More Accessible to Consumers(NCCDPHP); Keywords: Data Availability, Data Display, Surveillance System
- EPHRB Pilot Project for Collaboration with DHS to Prevent Chemical Threats (NCEH/ATSDR); Keywords: Chemical Warfare Agents, Chemical Threats, Community Systems in Chemical Capabilities
- Enhancement of the National Poison Data System for Detection of Incidents of Public Health Significance (NCEH/ATSDR); Keywords: Surveillance, Poison Center, Analysis
- Pilot of alternate data collection and distribution strategies for the National Toxic Substance Incidents Program to attain national coverage (NCEH/ATSDR); Keywords: Electronic Reporting, Algorithms, Prevention Strategies, Strategic Surveillance
- Integrating Surveillance of Contacts of Sputum Culture Positive Tuberculosis Cases into the Existing Web-based Tuberculosis Surveillance System – A Pilot Project (NCHHSTP); Keywords: TB contacts, Integrated TB web-based system
- Using Open Data Kit (ODK) for Rapid Data Collection, Transport, Visualization and Management of Malaria Data in Siaya County, Kenya(CGH); Keywords: Data collection, data transportation, data security, real-time, encryption, data access.
- Mapping households using a cost-effective data collection system for a multiple use platform, western Kenya (CGH);Keywords: data collection, cloud storage, Rapid Application and Server Deployment, cellular data transmission.
- Integrating Weather Monitoring into KEMRI/CDC HDSS in Western Kenya (CGH); Keywords: Climate change, weather database, adaptation, early warning system
- Zoonotic Disease Detection and Prevention: Development of a Web-based, Mobile Application for Wildlife Disease Notification Utilizing Real-Time Reporting from Hunters and Trappers (NCEZID);Keywords: Zoonotic Diseases, Wildlife diseases, Rabies, Poxviruses
- Direct Data Upload from Fillable PDF forms: Improving National Outbreak Surveillance through Enhanced Capacity to Report Electronic Data by State and Local Health Departments (NCEZID);Keywords: Outbreak surveillance, fillable PDF, National Outbreak Reporting System
- Development of EpiInfo-based surveillance system for Hansen’s Disease (NCEZID); Keywords: Hansen’s Disease, leprosy, data, accessibility, availability, surveillance, management
- Proof of Concept of Using Electronic Notification to Improve Surveillance and Quality of Newborn Screening Pre-analytic Processes (CSELS);Keywords: Newborn screening, specimen submission, pre-analytic systems quality assessment, quality improvement
- Surveillance Marketing and Promotion Project (CSELS);Keywords: Surveillance, brand, identity, marketing, promotion
- CDC Systems and Data Asset Repository (SDAR)(OCOO);Keywords: Consolidated metadata, Asset Inventory
*Project information is only shared by programs who opt in to share information with the CHIIC. Some projects chose not to share their information.
For more information:
2014 Project Award Announcement
2015 Project Award Announcement
2016 Project Award Announcement
Please email chiic@cdc.gov for more information on any projects.
- Page last reviewed: May 22, 2017
- Page last updated: May 22, 2017
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