About the SDP Shared Services

What are Shared Services?

Industry has found that by sharing administrative, information technology, and other operational services, the result is greater cost savings and improved service delivery. CDC is developing reusable shared services that can be plugged into multiple different surveillance programs within the agency.

How is SDP bringing Shared Services to CDC?

CDC is revolutionizing the way epidemiologists and public health professionals get, transfer, and use data. The Surveillance Data Platform (SDP) is applying cutting-edge technology and industry standards to critical public health challenges—from infectious disease to chronic health conditions. SDP is a secure, cloud-based platform that centralizes and shares common information technology services needed for disease surveillance.

As one of several CDC surveillance strategy initiatives, SDP seeks to improve public health outcomes by

• Enhancing public health’s ability to manage, share, and analyze data as well as share and reuse technological capabilities,
• Reducing unnecessary burden on internal and external data partners, and
• Improving efficiency in public health data usage and tracking across CDC.

The first two shared services — Vocabulary and Content-based Routing — are being released in 2017. When the Surveillance Data Platform is fully realized, it promises to decrease the burden on partners to send and use data across surveillance systems.