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Information system of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. The European Surveillance System (TESSy) – Strengthening the infectious disease surveillance in Europe. Per Rolfhamre, Surveillance Unit, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Istanbul, 25 September, 2009.
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Information system of European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control The European Surveillance System (TESSy) – Strengthening the infectious disease surveillance in Europe Per Rolfhamre, Surveillance Unit,European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control Istanbul, 25 September, 2009
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Surveillance Unit • Support strengthening of national surveillance systems • Establish EU-wide standard case reporting • Monitor trends of diseases across Europe to provide a rationale for public health actions in MS • Disseminate the results to stakeholders for timely public health actions at EU and MS level • Coordinate the integrated operations of the Dedicated Surveillance Networks
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Starting point • List of 47 notifiable diseases + AMR+ nosocomial infections • 17 dedicated surveillance networks (DSNs): • Cover 20 diseases (+ 3 not on the list) • 27 Member States + 3 EEA/EFTA with their own surveillance systems • Mandatory, voluntary • Population based, sentinel • Data from laboratories, physicians, hospitals • Case-based, aggregated • Sometimes more than one system per disease per country
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Starting point MS • Impact for member states • Huge workload • Different interfaces for data upload • Different database formats DSN MS DSN MS DSN MS DSN MS DSN MS MS DSN • Impact for DSN hubs • Data cleaning effort for all member states • Feedback for all member states MS DSN MS DSN MS DSN MS DSN MS DSN MS
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- One-stop-shop MS MSs Data users MS National institutes MS Disease experts MS General public MS AF members MS TESSy Data access Data upload and access MB members MS The European Surveillance System WHO MS EMCDDA MS EFSA MS Others MS MS … MS
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Architecture Move freely between systems User management Access Point Standardization of terms Nomination management
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Upload formats XML and CSV
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Validation results
The European Surveillance System (TESSy)- Time line and some numbers… • Oct 2006 – TESSy development started • Jan 2008 – TESSy grand opening • Jan 2008 to Sept 2009 • 450 TESSy users trained on-site • Eight hours of on-line training material • Data on 47 diseases for 30/53 countries collected • 3573 files uploaded • 3.45 million cases reported • 11.5 million validation messages produced