Submit Reportable Lab Results to MDSS

What is the Michigan Disease Surveillance System (MDSS)?

MDSS is a web-based system that allows for the electronic capture of disease data for the tracking and case management of communicable disease. MDSS fulfills the physician communicable disease reporting requirements and has the ability to receive HL7 laboratory report. For more information on the MDSS please visit the State of Michigan website at: http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2945_5104_31274---,00.html

What do I report to MDSS?

Rules, regulations, and a list of notifiable diseases required for reporting in Michigan can be found in the Health Care Professional’s Guide to Disease Reporting in Michigan (http://www.michigan.gov/documents/hlth_care_prof_guide_167371_7.pdf)

Meaningful Use and MDSS

Eligible Hospitals that wish to fulfill the Meaningful Use public health objective of capability to electronically submit lab results to public health agencies must comply with the following two regulations:

Final Rules for the EHR Incentive Program:

Meaningful use Stage 1 objective	Meaningful use Stage 1 measure	Certification criterion
Capability to submit electronic data on reportable (as required by state or local law) lab results to public health agencies and actual submission in accordance with applicable law and practice.	Performed at least one test of certified EHR technology's capacity to provida electronic submission of reportable lab results to public health agencies and follow-up submission if the test is successful (unless none of the public health agencies to which eligible hospital or CAH submits such information have the capacity to receive the information electronically).	Final Rule Text: §170.306(g). Reportable lab results. Electronically record, modify, retrieve. and submit reportable clinical lab results in accordance with the standard (and applicable implementation specifications) specified in § 170,205© and, at a minimum , the version of the standard speciified in § 170,207(c).

Final Rules for Health Information Technology Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for EHR Technology:

Certification Criterion	Electronic Health Record (EHR)Technology:
	Content Exchange Standards and Implementation Specifications		Message Vocabulary
Final Rule Text: § 170.306(g). Reportable lab results. Electronically record, modify, retrieve, and submit reportable clinical lab results in accordance with the standard (and applicable implementation specifications) specified in § 170.205(c) and, at a minimum, the version of the standard specified in § 170.207(c).	HL7 2.5.1	HL7 Version 2.5.1 ONC and Michigan Specifications for Implementation are available in the ELR Reporting to MDCH Guide	LOINC version 2.27

How to Send Data to MDSS

Please review the ELR Reporting to MDCH Guide listed below to learn more on how to send data to MDSS.

ELR Reporting to MDCH Guide

PHINMS Install Guide

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