USDA-APHIS IT Update

Neil Hammerschmidt for

John PicansoOffice of the Chief Information Officer

Veterinary Services

NIAA Annual Conferenceand

Animal Health Emergency Management Council

Data Sharing/Exchange Initiatives• Data Standards

– December 28, 2012, Docket No, 12-058-1, Data Standards for Electronic Interstate Certificates of Veterinary Inspection was published to the Federal Register

– http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/vs_ocio/data_standards.shtml

• Data Exchange Standards – AAVLD/USAHA established a Subcommittee on Information

Standards– Goal is to develop data exchange standards, beginning with CVI’s

• Information Sharing Policy– VS has a priority project underway to begin the work of developing

data sharing policies and agreements.

Surveillance Collaboration Services(SCS) Update

(planned)

SCS Summary Statistics 

SCS Stats Report                                      Mar 13, 2013   Mar 7, 2013  7 day diff   30 day diff                                     ------------  ------------  ----------   -----------                     All SCS Tables   497,963,490   496,181,977   1,781,513     4,073,308                   ALL SCS Holdings     1,659,305     1,659,254          51           240                      ALL SCS Herds     1,880,707     1,880,247         460         1,068                    ALL SCS Animals    38,993,625    38,905,474      88,151       330,772              ALL SCS Animal Events    84,901,462    84,495,865     405,597       522,694                ALL SCS Animal Tags    94,163,588    93,749,735     413,853       621,320            ALL SCS LIMS Accessions     1,186,593     1,185,089       1,504         5,652               ALL SCS Delayed Jobs            46            73         -27           n/a               ALL SCS LIMS Results    36,467,837    36,450,847      16,990        25,411ALL SCS Program Participation Herds        24,189        24,189           0            60               ALL SCS Vaccinations       625,007       623,975       1,032         4,308

5EXAMPLE: IBM Cognos®

SCS Premises History Report

State LIDs

• The SCS software supports the administration of the location identifiers defined in the Animal Disease Traceability (ADT) General Standards document.

• VS has developed a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document (March 2013) and will be distributed in the upcoming week.

EMRS 2.0 Development Status

• Configuration and design completed.

• Project team has developed core Disease Management functionality, testing and initial training has started.

• Currently working on initial stages MIMS and Lab integration as well as Resource Management.

MIM 2012/13 New Functionality• Integration with SCS

– 26 state instances of SCS receiving data from MIM – 9 of 11 MIM activity types integrated (April 2012)

• Brucellosis vaccination integration expected by April 2013

• MIM export data– Previously did not upload into GDB– Now uploads to SCS– Animals exported and animals listed on export certificates

but remaining in US recorded in SCS

VSPS Progress 2013

Currently developing maintenance release for early 2ndQTR 2013Modules Affected: • Approved Establishments for Import of Animal Products (AE)• Interstate• Animal Import Center Reservations (AICR)• Live Animal Import • National Veterinarian Accreditation Program (NVAP)

VSPS Progress 2013

Users: VS area offices

Owner: APHIS IT Ag Connect®

ERSS, BFES, LCEM, BCOP

COGNOS®

IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence

USDA FIREWALL

Purpose: Response system to collect and manage resources, disease mitigation dataand operations activities Users: IMTs, AVIC and state animal health officials.Customer: NCAHEM

VS Emergency Management IT Systems

Purpose: Visualizing data and providing a common operating pictureUser: APHIS National Incident Coordinator, NAHLN Viewers: IMTs; AVICs, SAHO, IndustryOwner: FAZD Center

Purpose: Collecting surveillance data on a PDAUsers: Field disease diagnosticians Owner: APHIS VS IT

Purpose: Messaging lab resultsUsers: Field disease diagnosticians Owner: NVSL / NAHLN

Purpose: Query/Report ResultsUser: VS area offices

Purpose: System for sharing surveillance dataUsers: State and Fed animal health officialsOwner: APHIS VS IT

LMSLaboratory Messaging

System

EMRSEmergency Management

Response System

SCSSurveillance

Collaboration Services

MIMMobile Information

Management

Purpose: Collecting surveillance data from 3rd party providersUsers: State and Fed animal health officials

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