Layout 1 ISDS Annual Conference Proceedings 2012. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ISDS 2012 Conference Abstracts One Health Surveillance with Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System Alexey V. Burdakov*, Andrey O. Ukharov and Thomas G. Wahl Black & Veatch, Overland Park, KS, USA Objective The objective of this demonstration is to show conference atten- dees how one-health surveillance in medical, veterinary and envi- ronmental sectors can be improved with Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance System (EIDSS) using CCHF as an example from Kaza- khstan. Introduction EIDSS supports collection and analysis of epidemiological, clini- cal and laboratory information on infectious diseases in medical, vet- erinary and environmental sectors. At this moment the system is deployed in Kazakhstan at 150 sites (planned 271) in the veterinary surveillance and at 8 sites (planned 23) in human surveillance. The system enforces the one-health concept and provides capacity to im- prove surveillance and response to infectious disease including es- pecially dangerous like CCHF. EIDSS has been in development since 2005 and is a free-of-charge tool with plans for open-source development. The system develop- ment is based on expertise of a number of US and international ex- perts including CDC, WRAIR, USAMRIID, et al. Methods Effective monitoring and control of zoonotic diseases requires in- tegrated approach to surveillance in medical, veterinary and envi- ronmental sectors. Capability to rapidly collect and analyze information from these sectors is challenging due to diversity of dif- ferent systems often used in these areas. EIDSS presented a unique in- tegrated solution which allows collecting, sharing and analyzing data across these sectors. In those countries where this system is imple- mented both in human and veterinary surveillance (Georgia, Azer- baijan and Kazakhstan), it provides a unique opportunity to improve monitoring and control capability. In Kazakhstan and other countries experts are working on creating and improving effective analysis methods. In particular a method of real-time control of CCHF situation was developed in Kazakhstan. It allows the assembly of raw data gathered at the lower level in, sur- veillance system throughout the country on CCHF cases in humans, assemble ticks vector surveillance campaigns and laboratory diag- nostic results and analyze these data against population density. This gives a one-step tool to an epidemiologist to understand the situation and plan response at the national and regional level (see sample map). A quick link with the veterinary response teams allow to rapidly act with domestic animals prophylaxis measures. Demonstration of the tool encouraging the One Health approach to the surveillance which is already in place in a number of countries provides an exclusive opportunity to review different aspects of its utilization in practice as well as discuss challenges and benefits of this method in resource limited environments. Conclusions EIDSS provides a capacity to improve one-health disease surveil- lance in human, veterinary and vector sectors by rapidly collecting, disseminating and analyzing data on infectious diseases. Particular methods which are being developed in Kazakhstan and other partic- ipating countries provide an instrument to epidemiologists to make decisions and more effectively plan response measures. Currently particular methods were tested for CCHF infection. It is planned to in- troduce methods for brucellosis and other infectious diseases of spe- cial interest in Central Asia and Caucasus Region. Keywords EIDSS; electronic surveillance; one-health References 1. Burdakov A., Ukharov A. Transforming national human and veterinary disease surveillance systems from paper into integrated electronic form in the FSU countries // 15th International Congress on Infec- tious Diseases (ICID), Bangkok 2012 2. Burdakov A., Ukharov A. Electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance (EIDSS) // World Congress on Information and Communication Tech- nologies for Development (WCID’09) congress in Beijing, China - 2009 3. Burdakov A. Implementation of Information-Telecommunication part of the Threat Agent Detection and Response (TADR) program in Re- public of Kazakhstan // Official Bulletin of State Sanitary-Epidemio- logical Service of Republic of Kazakhstan, 1/37. 69-70. *Alexey V. Burdakov E-mail: BurdakovAV@bv.com Online Journal of Public Health Informatics * ISSN 1947-2579 * http://ojphi.org * 5(1):e199, 2013