What is the California Health Alert Network (CAHAN) San Diego?
CAHAN San Diego is a local public health emergency communication system dedicated to facilitating rapid, confidential communication between San Diego County medical and public health professionals to ensure rapid identification of and response to unusual disease events and public health emergencies. CAHAN is the State’s system that we share with other counties. It is similar to other public health alerting systems used throughout the United States as part of the national Health Alert Network program. CAHAN San Diego is administered by the Emergency Medical Services Branch of the County of San Diego’s Health and Human Service Agency (HHSA). Each local hospital can administer their own hospital participants.
