PHIN Guides

Cancer Reporting

Communications and Directory

Communications and Directory
Document Transaction Standard(s) Used Status
PHIN Communication and Alerting (PCA) Guide Version 1.3 (April 27, 2010) Public Health Alerting EDXL V 1.0

CAP V1.1

Published
PHIN Directory Exchange Implementation Guide Version 1.0 (May 16, 2007) Public Health Directory Exchange DSML 1.0 Published

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ELR

ELR
Document Transaction Standard(s) Used Status
HL7®Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide:Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health (US Realm), Release 2, HL7®Informative Document (May 2014)

(HL7®account required)

Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health HL7®2.5.1 Published

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Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI)

CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) supports Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) import of certain healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data. Please visit the NHSN CDA Submission Support Portal for the implementation guide, toolkits, training videos, and other resources.

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Message Transport

Message Transport
Document Transaction Standard(s) Used Status
PHIN Exchange Developer Guide Version 1.0(April 30, 2010) PHIN Exchange XML Published
SOAP
SSL
PHIN Secure Message Transport Guide Version 2.0 (July 31, 2008) PHIN Secure Message Transport (PHIN MS) SOAP 1.1 Published
XML Digital Signature: RSA-1.5 and SHA-1
XML Encryption: RSA-1.5 and Triple-DES-CBC
Two-way SSL 3.0

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Notifiable Disease Case Notification

Please visit the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) Technical Resource Center at https://www.cdc.gov/nndss/trc/index.html. There, you can access finalized NNDSS HL7®Message Mapping Guides (MMGs), HL7®MMGs in development, MMG-related artifacts, and an archive of historical documentation.

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Syndromic Surveillance

CDC, in collaboration with the International Society for Disease Surveillance, has developed and published syndromic surveillance messaging guides. These guides support Promoting Interoperability programs that employ health information technology to improve the quality and value of American healthcare. To access and use the HL7®implementation guides for the Syndromic Surveillance Promoting Interoperability objectives, please see the table below.

Syndromic Surveillance
Location Transaction Standard(s) Used Status
Syndromic Surveillance Message Mapping Guides Syndromic surveillance transmissions from healthcare providers to public health HL7®Version 2.5.1,

ICD-10-CM,

SNOMED-CT,

LOINC,

Rx Norm,

UCUM,

CPT4

The following decisions were made by the ISDS Message Guide Workgroup as well as the changes to streamline and reduce redundancies from previous versions of the guide:
  • Removed all references to laboratory data
  • Removed all ICD 9 references
  • Removed all references to HL7®v2.3.1

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