The West Virginia Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WVEDSS) is a Web-based electronic disease reporting system which will serve health care providers, hospital and national reference laboratories, and local and state public health departments. In the past, specific diseases mandated by law were reported by providers and laboratories to public health agencies on paper forms by fax or mail. WVEDSS will provide manual electronic disease reporting through key entry as well as direct electronic transfer of test results from laboratory information systems. Once fully implemented, this system will dramatically enhance disease surveillance, detection and response activities in West Virginia and minimize or eliminate the delays inherent in current paper-based systems.

     The WVSIIS web application allows enrolled users to conveniently search for patients in the WVSIIS Central Registry and to view the patients' vaccination records.

     In addition, authorized users can add and edit patient records and vaccination records, as well as maintain facility, physician, and lot number data.

     The RAPIDS/OSCAR Print Solution Project is designed to meet two distinct programmatic needs:

     The first need addressed is court-ordered functionality for the RAPIDS system to support previewing and annotation of pending notices generated automatically by the RAPIDS system.

     The second need addressed relates to the printing of forms from within the OSCAR system. The current system for printing forms relies on software and hardware which are no longer available. The OSCAR print solution will provide an alternative method for generating and printing OSCAR forms.

     The RAPIDS/OSCAR Print Solution is comprised of custom software, running on OMIS-supported hardware, which will serve custom print jobs to RAPIDS and OSCAR users via a web interface. The custom software will also communicate with both the RAPIDS and OSCAR system databases hosted on the IS&C Mainframe.

     "Trauma and Emergency Medical Information System (TEMIS) is the information system developed and maintained by OEMS to collect and maintain the necessary trauma and emergency care information to assure system quality and accountability, as well as to provide data for use in system design and operations. This system includes, but is not limited to, the State Trauma Registry (STR), the State Medical Command Record (SMCR), and the EMS Patient Care Record (EPCR)."

     Upgrading the Department’s Windows 2000 environment to Windows 2003. Planning and testing stages were completed in January, 2005. Implementation to begin in February, 2005 and will run through April, 2005.