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VAERS Messages Development in HL-7 and Information Capture

VAERS Messages Development in HL-7 and Information Capture. Contra Costa County Health Services Siu Wing Tong, Ph.D. Information Systems Division. What is VAERS?. Briefly described … V accine A dverse E vent R eporting S ystem Joint effort by CDC FDA. What is VAERS?, Cont’d.

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VAERS Messages Development in HL-7 and Information Capture

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  1. VAERS Messages Development in HL-7 and Information Capture Contra Costa County Health Services Siu Wing Tong, Ph.D. Information Systems Division Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  2. What is VAERS? • Briefly described … • Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System • Joint effort by • CDC • FDA Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  3. What is VAERS?, Cont’d • There is a Published Protocol • For creating the HL-7 messages • CDC’s VAERS document • VAERS messages use ORU message type of HL-7 Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  4. First Implementation • Done in summer of 2002 months before the 3rd IRC held in PA • Sample of test messages submitted to CDC • (Susan Abernathy before her retirement from CDC in late 2002) Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  5. Architecture • Use the same “HL-7 Gateway Web Service” architecture to send & receive messages • Presented during the 2nd day HL-7 symposium during the 3rd IRC in PA hosted by Susan Abernathy • 4-page description of the gateway published in 3rd IRC available Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  6. Architecture, Cont’d • Free HL-7 parser and message generator, Chameleon, from InterfaceWare of Canada, when participating in Susan Abernathy’s project in 2001-2002 • Other commercially available HL-7 parsers such as Neotool are expected to work as well Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  7. Architecture, Cont’d • Cannot embed HL-7 parsers in our new, dot-NET compiled IZ system because neither in-house Neotool nor Chameleon were compatible with dot-NET in 2001 • Wrapped in Microsoft web services • Advantages of web services • Web services solved platform incompatibility • Additional flexibility Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  8. VAERS Message Sample Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  9. Susan Abernathy’s Suggestions • We followed • New screen to capture the extra data items on paper form • Store and persist the extra data items • Support additional batch mode of creating HL-7 messages to be sent Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  10. Screen with Reaction Noted Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  11. Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  12. Contributors • Bhumil Shah • Siu Wing Tong Contra Costa County Health Services, California

  13. Contact Us Siu Wing Tong, Ph.D. Information Technology Supervisor Contra Costa County Health Services 595 Center Ave, Suite 200 Martinez, CA 94553 swtong@hsd.co.contra-costa.ca.us Contra Costa County Health Services, California

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