After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings, the U.S. government prioritized a biosurveillance strategy aimed at detecting, monitoring, and characterizing national security health threats in human and animal populations, food, water, agriculture, and the environment. However, gaps and challenges in biosurveillance efforts and integration of biosurveillance activities remain. September 8-9, 2011, the IOM held a workshop to explore the information-sharing and collaboration processes needed for the nation's integrated biosurveillance strategy.

Contents

• THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
• PLANNING COMMITTEE ON INFORMATION-SHARING MODELS AND GUIDELINES FOR COLLABORATION: APPLICATIONS TO AN INTEGRATED ONE HEALTH BIOSURVEILLANCE STRATEGY—A WORKSHOP
• Reviewers
• Acronyms
• 1. Introduction and Overview
  • STATUS OF NATIONAL BIOSURVEILLANCE INTEGRATION
  • OVERVIEW OF THE WORKSHOP
  • ORGANIZATION OF THIS SUMMARY
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• 2. Experiences of Federal Agencies
  • RESPONDING TO EPIDEMICS AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
  • COORDINATING ANIMAL HEALTH ACTIONS ACROSS THE HUMAN-ANIMAL INTERFACE
  • INTEGRATING COMPLEX NATIONAL MISSIONS: LESSONS FROM THE NATIONAL COUNTERTERRORISM CENTER’S DIRECTORATE OF STRATEGIC OPERATIONAL PLANNING
  • VIEWPOINT OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY STAFF
• 3. State and Local Experiences
  • BIOLOGICAL PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE IN NEW YORK CITY
  • SEEKING ACCESS TO SURVEILLANCE DATA IN MARION COUNTY, INDIANA
  • INFORMATION SHARING FOR BIOSURVEILLANCE IN NORTH CAROLINA
• 4. Outside Perspectives
  • KEEPING PACE WITH DATA COLLECTIONS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT
  • INFORMATION SHARING: THE ISRAELI EXPERIENCE
• 5. Discussion of a Scenario
  • FIRST MOVE
  • SECOND MOVE
  • THIRD MOVE
  • FOURTH MOVE
  • FIFTH MOVE
• 6. Concept of Operations
  • A FOCUS ON PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
  • OPERATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACTS
  • OPERATIONAL REALITIES
  • A REGIONAL SOLUTION
  • DISCUSSION
• References
• Appendixes
  • A Workshop Agenda
  • B Speaker Biographies
  • C Planning Committee Biographies
  • D Standing Committee on Health Threats Resilience

Rapporteurs: Deepali M. Patel and Steve Olson.

This study was supported by Contract No. HSHQDC-08-C-00111 between the National Academy of Sciences and the Department of Homeland Security. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the organizations or agencies that provided support for this project.

Suggested citation:

IOM (Institute of Medicine). 2012. Information sharing and collaboration: Applications to integrated biosurveillance: Workshop summary. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.