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SDP Content-based Routing Service

Currently, busy state health departments who track and monitor illness, injuries, and outbreaks submit data to CDC in multiple ways through multiple disease surveillance systems.

The Content-based Routing service cuts down on this work—enabling health departments to send data transmissions to a single receiving point and to combine related data into consolidated data feeds for CDC programs.  A shared information technology service, working behind the scenes at CDC, automatically examines the data, and securely sends it to the correct programs across the agency.

The service initially focuses on routing disease case notification messages to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and Emerging Infections Program (EIP) and will eventually expand to include additional programs and data formats.

Content-based Routing Value Diagram

Features And Benefits

  • Reduces reporting burden by providing public health partners a single point of transmission of surveillance data to the CDC.
  • Improves efficiency by routing a single message to multiple CDC programs.
  • Harmonizes data submission efforts across CDC and public health partners.
  • Provides an IT foundation that can be built upon in the future to gain more efficiencies.

Using the Service: A Salmonella Example

Using the Service: A Salmonella Example

Public health partners currently submit salmonellosis case notifications to two different programs that need this time-sensitive data: the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) and the Emerging Infections Program (EIP).  With the SDP Content-based Routing service, instead of sending separate messages to NNDSS and EIP, public health professionals on the front lines send one message. Behind the scenes at CDC, the service examines the message and sends it to both systems that need the information it contains.

The result = Technology Trims Tasks

FASTER: Public health partners do less work to report the Salmonella case, reducing burden

SMARTER:  A streamlined flow of information on the Salmonella case for the people who need it

BETTER:  More effective Salmonella case reporting

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