NC DETECT: North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool

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The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiologic Collection Tool (NC DETECT) is North Carolina's statewide syndromic surveillance system. NC DETECT was created by the North Carolina Division of Public Health (NC DPH) in 2004 in collaboration with the Carolina Center for Health Informatics (CCHI) in the UNC Department of Emergency Medicine to address the need for early event detection and timely public health surveillance in North Carolina using a variety of secondary data sources. Authorized users are currently able to view data from emergency departments, the Carolinas Poison Center, and the Pre-hospital Medical Information System (PreMIS), as well as pilot data from select urgent care centers.

NC DETECT is designed, developed and maintained by CCHI staff with funding by the NC DPH. New functionality is added regularly based on end user feedback.

For more information, please visit the links on this page and/or send email to ncdetect@listserv.med.unc.edu.

Upcoming Events

4th Annual Communicable Disease Conference and Tuberculosis Symposium
May 20-22, 2013
Wrightsville Beach, NC

CSTE Conference
June 9-13, 2013
Pasadena, CA

What's New

Lippmann SJ, Fuhrmann CM, Waller AE, Richardson DB. Ambient temperature and emergency department visits for heat-related illness in North Carolina, 2007-2008. Environmental Research, April 2013

Yeatts K, Lippmann SJ, Waller A, Hassmiller Lich K, Travers D, Weinberger M, Donohue JF. Acute Exacerbations of COPD in the Emergency Department (ED): ED Returns, Hospital Admissions, and Comorbidity Risks. CHEST 2013 Apr 11. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-1899. [Epub ahead of print].

Released 4/1/2013: Traumatic Brain Injury Fact Sheet

Response to the Safe States Alliance Injury Surveillance Workgroup (ISW-7) ICD-9-CM Poisoning Matrix. This report recommends changes to the ICD-9-CM codes identified to classify ED visits due to poisonings, drug overdoses and substance abuse.

2010 Injury report available with county-level data.

Meaningful Use: Please visit the NC DETECT Meaningful Use page for updates on meaningful use and syndromic surveillance in North Carolina.