1. Cross Jurisdiction Directory Roles Live feeds from Communications Directory  Reg. Hlth. Admin.  Reg. Emerg. Coord.  Reg. MRC  PIO  Hlth. Commiss.  Emerg. Mnger  EOC Coord.  BT Coord.  CD/ID Coord.  HAN Coord.  Env. Hlth. Coord.  Chief Epi.  Behav. Hlth. Dir.  SNS Coord.  WMD Coord.  Poison Cont.  Hlth Care Coord.

2. Select Specific Facility Communications Directory ( Hospital Example)

3. Place Contact Information Communications Directory ( Hospital Example)

4. Person-Role Contact Information List of persons in Role Contact Info. Communications Directory ( Hospital Example)

5. Alert Tool

6. Secure Web Postings from Alert System

7. EDB Hospital Capacity Portal Historical Trends In Hospital Admissions ( Daily and Day of week ) Facility Attributes & equipment ( Hyperbaric chamber, burn/trauma center, vents etc ) Bed Availability( General, critical care, trauma, adult, pediatric ) Critical Supplies ( blood, PPE, Pharmaceuticals, etc) Surge Capacity Surge Capacity ( trauma, Burn, ED, Crit. Care, Adult, Pediatric )

8. EDB Epidemiological Surveillance Portal Click on highlighted county Receive detail status report Signals For Region ED Syndromic Medicaid Prescriptions OTC ED Surveillance Status Statewide ED Surveillance

9. EDB Physician Assets

10. Licensed Professional Volunteer Tracking System

11. Laboratory capacity

12. Usage During RNC(Aug 28-Sept 4) Executive Staff from 18 Organizations, 168 users entered, used and accessed EDB 3659 times NYSDOH Central/Regional Offices: Executive and Deputy Commissioners Local County Health : Commissioners/Directors  Dutchess, Nassau, Rockland, Putnam, Suffolk, Westchester, NYCity, Sullivan,Orange, Ulster US Department of Health and Human Services  Region II Administrator and Sr. Staff Other States: Health Commissioner or Executive Rep.  Connecticut, New Jersey

13. Conclusions Integrated, standards-based health information infrastructure is a key asset to health preparedness and response planning. The benefit of this infrastructure is magnified by providing the Executive Decision maker with high level, integrated visual summaries of information required for situational awareness and response Successful cross jurisdictional health planning and response requires regional based approaches to sharing information and integrating existing health information infrastructure