What is infectious disease surveillance?
In addition to routine disease monitoring, surveillance is critical during the investigation of disease outbreaks or other public health emergencies. What is an electronic disease surveillance system? The current Kansas electronic disease surveillance system (“KS-EDSS”) is a secure, web-based database for reporting infectious disease data. Through this data, we can monitor and track diseases in Kansas. Information about Individual cases of disease is reported to KDHE by local health departments, hospitals, laboratories and private physicians by telephone, fax, or entered directly through the internet. Through disease surveillance, the overall health of Kansans can be described, providing an accurate and timely picture of infectious disease trends, as well as the overall burden of disease in Kansas. This enables public health programs to better implement disease prevention, education, investigation and control. The de-identified information that is reported to the Centers for Disease Co
