Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS)

Background
The State of North Dakota, through its Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Division, is soliciting proposals for the implementation, operational support services, and SaaS hosting of an integrated electronic disease surveillance and outbreak management system. The system will replace the current electronic disease surveillance system, Maven through Conduent. The scope of services includes initial installation, configuration, integration with required interfacing applications and entities, transformation and importation of legacy systems disease surveillance data and case data, and transition to operations and support.

The awarded vendor shall provide operations implementation support, training, and ongoing maintenance and support of the application installation.

Work Details
The Electronic Disease Surveillance System (EDSS) will be used by State employees and other stakeholders to collect and monitor data from the new system. The system must be able to reliably capture health data through manual entry, electronic batch files, standardized HL7 messaging, and other electronic formats. It should allow investigators to conduct case investigations and contact tracing, providing workflows for investigators and methods of contacting potential cases or contacts through monitoring surveys.

The system must provide robust deduplication capabilities to identify and eliminate duplicate cases, persons, and organizations. It should also provide users with the ability to create ad-hoc reports, administrators to create canned reports, as well as full data access for integration with external reporting tools and data stores.

Period of Performance
The contract start date is approximately November 1, 2024.