A Sustainable, Multi-Organizational Model for Decision Support During Public Health Emergencies

In an effort to provide decision support during times of public health emergencies, Regenstrief Institute, Inc. and the Indiana University School of Medicine, in partnership with the county and state health departments, created a sustainable model to deliver information to health care providers and public health workers. The model leverages extant systems and processes, including active surveillance through electronic laboratory reporting, delivery of health information as part of the Indiana Health Information Exchange, and evidence based utilities and Blog technology to create a public health utility with disease specific information and epidemiologic reporting requirements.