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
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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
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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
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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
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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;
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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
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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.