National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS ...

NEDSS Phase II, Deliverables 1 and 2
VIII. Summary
Summary
The implementation of the NEDSS Base System will provide the electronic processes needed for
a superior notifiable disease surveillance and analysis system, replacing the functionality
currently supported by the National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance
(NETSS) and the Tuberculosis Information Management System (TIMS). Additionally, it will
provide an environment for increased data quality, timeliness and reporting of laboratory data.
Though this NEDSS Base System implementation is not intended to represent the complete
NEDSS solution, it will provide the foundation upon which further BOH program needs, data
collection, processing and reporting can be built.
The plan presented in this document proposes several essential components of implementing a
complex disease reporting system—Organization, Managerial Process Plans, Technical Process
Plans, Support Process Plans and Migration and Training Plans and several key appendices.
These documents along with the eBusiness Plan, also attached, were completed with the
understanding that the state will be using, at least in the first phases of implementation, the Base
System to be provided by CDC.
The implementation plan presented in this document, and its associated methodology, serve to
provide a structured and proven framework to ensure successful deliverables and to meet
business objectives. More specifically, this plan provides the following benefits:
• Reduced risk of project failure
• Consideration of system and data requirements throughout the entire life of the system
• Early identification of technical and management issues
• Realistic expectations of what the systems will and will not provide
• Information to better balance programmatic, technical, management, and cost aspects of
proposed system development or modification
• Measurements of progress and status to enable effective corrective action
• Information that supports effective resource management and budget planning
• Consideration of meeting current and future business requirements
Once the CDC Base System is received it will be necessary to develop a more detailed
implementation plan as part of the implementation process since the parameters of CDC’s Base
System and the software that comes are not known at this time. However the planning processes
described in this document will permit the state to move forward with implementation more
swiftly and take a giant leap forward in its ability to access, transmit and report both disease data
for the residents of Maine and soon after that bring many of the related datasets in the BOH into
the system.
PHRG Page 17 of 35 September 28, 2001