To: Board of Supervisors
From: Dr. Grant Colfax, Health Services Director
Report Title: Center for Infectious Diseases General Data Use and Disclosure Agreement #72-295 with California Department of Public Health
?Recommendation of the County Administrator ? Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute a Data Use and Disclosure Agreement (DUA) #72-295 with California Department of Public Health (CDPH), a public agency, governing the Public Health Division's collection, receipt, use and disclosure of Center for Infectious Diseases data, for a period of three years from the execution date of the Agreement.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This is a non-financial agreement. There is no cost to the County.
BACKGROUND:
The Center for Infectious Diseases (CID) is a program of the CDPH, which coordinates public health surveillance and epidemiological studies to define, prevent and control infectious diseases and to assist local health jurisdictions plan, develop, implement, and improve prevention, control, care, treatment, and social support programs for infectious diseases. Local health departments collect, use, and share critical infectious disease data through multiple database platforms, including CAIR (California Immunization Registry), CalREDIE (California Reportable Disease Information Exchange), I2D2 (Integrated Infectious Disease Data Warehouse), the My Turn Vaccine Management System and CalCONNECT, the online database that maintains information, originally collected by CDPH and local health departments throughout California, related to Contagious or Reportable Diseases and Conditions.
The DUA provides the terms, conditions and limitations of the Public Health Division's collection, receipt, use and disclosure to ensure the secure exchange of this critical public health data among California's local health departments and CID. The DUA defines the specific data elements that may be shared, the ...
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