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Use Cases for CRA at the Local, State and Federal Levels: Lessons Learned

Use Cases for CRA at the Local, State and Federal Levels: Lessons Learned. PHIN Conference Atlanta, GA August 27, 2008 Jeanne Tropper, MS, MPH 1 and Al Romanosky, MD, PhD 2 1 Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response National Center for Public Health Informatics

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Use Cases for CRA at the Local, State and Federal Levels: Lessons Learned

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  1. Use Cases for CRA at the Local, State and Federal Levels: Lessons Learned PHIN Conference Atlanta, GA August 27, 2008 Jeanne Tropper, MS, MPH1 and Al Romanosky, MD, PhD2 1Division of Emergency Preparedness and Response National Center for Public Health Informatics Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2Office of Preparedness and Response Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

  2. Co-authors • Jeanne Tropper • Nancy Lewis • Guy Faler • Tricia Gallagher • Sanjeeb Sapkota • Charles Williams • Ulrica Andujar • Al Romanosky

  3. Agenda • CRA Background • CRA Use at the Federal, State, and Local Levels • CRA Use at Maryland Statewide Pandemic Influenza Exercise • Summary

  4. What is CRA? • Genesis was Pre-Event Vaccination System (PVS) for national smallpox vaccination campaign • Capability to support mass tracking during an event • System has since evolved to support any countermeasure, any event; may include medical interventions such as vaccinations, pharmaceuticals and non-medical interventions such as patient isolation and quarantine or social distancing measures • Includes the ability to track both detail (person level) and aggregate counts of countermeasures

  5. When Would CRA be Used?

  6. CRA Use at all Levels

  7. Maryland Pan Flu Exercise

  8. Conclusions • CRA is an established informatics application to track the utilization/ administration of countermeasure used • CRA has successfully provided support to public health agencies at the local, state, and federal level • CRA successfully assisted in Maryland Pandemic Exercise including ensuring social distancing tested in Laurel Municipality • Several challenges have been identified and will be addressed in future versions of CRA application

  9. Acknowledgements • Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene officials • Staff in Howard county, Laurel municipality, Chester River Hospital center, Kent County, All in Maryland • Contractors from Northrop Grumman, BearingPoint, SRA International Inc. • CDC colleagues in NCPHI, COTPER and NCIRD

  10. CRA website:www.cdc.gov/phin/craFor questions/ comments: crainfo@cdc.gov

  11. Thank you for your attention! Disclaimer: The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official positions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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