SEDRIC Overview

• The System for Enteric Disease Response, Investigation, and Coordination
  • Web-based platform (in the cloud) developed by CDC and Palantir Technologies
  • Facilitates collaborative multistate outbreak investigations of enteric disease
• SEDRIC is a customized, off-the-shelf web-based software system with four major capabilities
  • Integrate multiple surveillance data sources in real time
  • Visualize outbreak data rapidly in one place
  • Provide a secure platform for partner collaboration
  • Manage a repository of historic surveillance and outbreak data

• SEDRIC facilitates secure electronic data-sharing among partners during outbreak investigations
• Partners currently using SEDRIC are epidemiologists, laboratorians, and regulators from
  • State and local health departments
  • CDC
  • FDA
  • USDA-FSIS, USDA-APHIS

• CDC partners have access to SEDRIC for free
• Data Visualizations
  • Manage and visualize clusters under investigation
  • Visualize trends in time and space
  • Visualize relationships
• Data Management
  • Secure data sharing across agencies in real-time
  • Data exploration
  • Integration of future data sources

SEDRIC ingests surveillance data from PulseNet, NARMS, NORS, OMS, EDMI, and Epi Info as well as investigation data from epidemiologists, environmental health, regulatory agencies from state, federal partners. SEDRIC then compiles this information for data exploration, secure sharing, and visualization.

• Highlights
  • Intuitive GUI design, easy to learn
  • No software to download, entirely web-based
  • Surveillance data available in almost real-time
  • Multiple surveillance sources available under a single platform (and more being added!)
  • Fast (and pretty!) graphics
  • Secure, real-time data sharing
• Limitations
  • Not an analytical platform
  • Uni-directional data flow

• https://sedric.cdc.gov
• https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/outbreaks/tools/sedric.html
  • Information about SEDRIC
  • Library of Training Documents
  • Link to login

• As of March 12, 2020:
  • SEDRIC upgraded platforms, no longer needing access to Java
  • Added integrations from Epi Info for our National Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire
  • Bulk uploading epidemiological updates has returned
  • Cluster detection
  • Allele Code/PFGE Pattern Crosswalk
  • … and much, much more!

• Increased speed and efficiency in cluster management and triage
  • Easy, ad-hoc queries at our fingertips
  • Search across surveillance sources
  • Meeting times more effectively utilized
  • Increased efficiency in creating summaries and visualizations for meetings, presentations, publications
• Empowering state and local epidemiologists, laboratorians, and food safety staff to easily mine and visualize their own surveillance data
• Collaboration!

• Incorporation of allele codes for all pathogens, new analysis widgets
• Integrating COVIS data
• Integrating Shigella NNDSS data for outbreak response
• Connection with NCBI Pathogen Detection Pipeline
• Additional cluster detection tools