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of the 37 notifiable diseases and public health emergency events will
be directly reported to this system immediately over the Internet.
4. To have the new surveillance system serve as the core of a Regional
Public Health Information Network, and ensure all stakeholders
share information so as to maximize the utilization of regional health
data. Stakeholders included health administrative agencies, disease
control, and preventive institutions, hospitals, insurance companies,
and residents.
10.3 System Implementation and Its
Progress and Impacts to Date
The China Information System for Disease Control and Prevention (CISDCP),
China's infectious disease surveillance system, went live on January 1, 2004.
Figure 10.5 illustrates the data flow (Ma 2006). The system integrated processes
for the collection, auditing, analysis and reporting of data, and ran on a “case-
based, real-time, online” basis. Cases diagnosed at hospitals were required
to be reported and sent to the central data bank at the national CDC level at
the time of detection via the Web. Local CDCs at each level perform audits of
data before submission into the database for further analysis and interpreta-
tion. Only authorized users within the local health bureaus and CDCs have
access to the data bank, based on roles and corresponding privileges.
MOH
Daily, We ekly,Monthly, Annually
Utilization
Utilization
National CDC
Prov. HLTH Bureau
Alert
Feedback
Central Data
Bank
Alert
Maintenance
Auditing
Prov. CDC
City/Pref. HLTH
Bureau
Reports,
Events
Statistics
Pref. CDC
Statistics
County HLTH
Bureau
Cases
County CDC
To wnship
Hospitals
... ...
Others
Figure 10.5
Data flow within China's Infectious Disease Surveillance System.
