The Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) for veterinary and public health in Azerbaijan

The Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) is a computer-based system for national reporting and monitoring of especially dangerous infectious diseases for the Bio-Threat Reduction Program. EIDSS strengthens and supports current infectious disease surveillance and monitoring activities by integrating human and veterinary case data through individual and aggregate counts, demographic information, geographical information including real time mapping of case events as these unfold, disease-specific clinical data (based on standardized case definitions), epidemiological information, sample tracking linked to each case and event, tests, and test results linked to each sample. This data is continuously synchronized amongst all EIDSS sites within a country, providing near real time information flow

EIDSS is currently deployed in the Republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan as a part of the TADR Network created by Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA). The communications and computer infrastructure supporting EIDSS is designed on the widely available and supported off-the-shelf components, which makes the systems maintenance and support effort cost effective.

The EIDSS system has been implemented in Azerbaijan to be use for both human and veterinary disease reporting, and includes surveillance capability for a wide-range of infectious agents. Although the EIDSS system was primarily designed to report and track EDPs, the Azerbaijan government has adopted the system as a national electronic reporting system. There are currently X# of reportable human diseases and X# of veterinary disease in the EIDSS system. The EIDSS system is also capable of direct data reporting to the WHO data center for compliance with the IHR 2005 requirements. This talk will present an overview of the EIDSS system for BTRP and highlight the practical application of EIDSS in Azerbaijan. This talk will provide an overview of the EIDSS system and highlight the use of EIDSS in Azerbaijan for disease surveillance.