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interoperability across various elements of a biosurveillance system, includ-
ing the alerting sub-systems of message creation, distribution, and delivery.
Adoption of Common Alerting Protocol (CAP v1.1) provides a standards-
based approach to biosurveillance alerting that supports data interchange
across platforms and enables new end-user devices to be introduced with
minimum disruption to the system overall.
This chapter has described the initial steps taken toward an implementa-
tion of CAP v1.1 as an alerting protocol for the Real-Time Biosurveillance
Program (RTBP) initiative. The first step in such a process is the creation of a
reference document that defines a required set of alert attributes, as well as
vocabulary and valid value sets for a local instantiation of CAP. The RTBP
implementation is an adaptation based on pioneering work done by the
CDC-PHIN and released in 2008 under its PHIN-PCA Guide. The aim here
has been to illustrate an instantiation of CAP as derived from the PHIN-PCA
Guide, highlighting a number of specific issues and considerations associated
with health alerting for a biosurveillance project in a developing country.
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