TB Notes 1, 2005

No. 1, 2005

This image is a map of the United States showing the locations of Tuberculosis Patient Management Project Stakeholders. Various dots on the map represent the following stakeholders: Change Control Board members, NTCA Joint Analysis Design Group members, sites to which field visits were made, sites that have supplied test data, the Project Team, and sites that have nominated applications.

A Change Control Board (CCB) was established to help facilitate communication across key stakeholders and its members consists of representation from:

CDC – Atlanta, GA
Northrop Grumman – Atlanta, GA
SAIC – Atlanta, GA
NTNCC (National TB Nurse Consultant Coalition) - Jamaica Plains, MA
ASTHO (Association of State & Territorial Health Officers), NACCHO (National Association of County & City Health Officers), NTNCC (National TB Nurse Consultant Coalition) – Boston, MA
NTCA (National Tuberculosis Controllers Association) – Madison, WI

The NTCA Joint Analysis Design Group consists of members from the following cities:

San Diego, California
San Francisco, California
Denver, Colorado
Tallahassee, Florida
Chicago, Illinois
New Orleans, Louisiana
Lansing, Michigan
Santa Fe, New Mexico
New York, New York
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Austin, Texas
Madison, Wisconsin

Field visits were made to the following states:

Alabama
California
Colorado
Illinois
New Mexico
New York
South Carolina
Texas

The following cities/states supplied test data:

Alabama
California
Denver, Colorado
Florida
Louisiana
Boston, Massachusetts
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, OK

Project team members’ locations are as follows:

CDC – Atlanta, GA
SAIC – Atlanta, GA
SAIC – Oak Ridge, TN

Nominated TB Patient Management applications and the city/state which nominated the applications:

ABS (Advanced Business Software) – Imperial County, California
CIMS (Casto Information Management System) – San Diego County, California
Equicare – Chicago, Illinois
HealthDoc – Denver, Colorado
Persimmony - California
STAR (Stop TB Arizona Registry) - Arizona
TBDB (TB Database System) – Colorado
TBIS (TB Information System) – Massachusetts
TB Surveillance – Illinois
TBCIS (TB Contact Investigation System) – South Carolina
Denver Health staffTRAK – Denver, Colorado
MSTI (Minnesota System for Tuberculosis Information) – Minnesota
HAWK – Kansas
Oaxaca – San Francisco, California
Open eMed – New Mexico
CHARTS (Community Health Activities and Referral System) – Alameda County, California
CIIP (Contact Investigation Improvement Project) – California Department of Health
OTIS (Oklahoma TB Information System) – Oklahoma
PHMS (Public Health Management System) – Florida
PA NEDSS - Pennsylvania

Released September 2005
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention
Division of Tuberculosis Elimination - http://www.cdc.gov/tb

Please send comments/suggestions/requests to: tbinfo@cdc.gov, or to
CDC/Division of Tuberculosis Elimination
Communications and Education Branch
1600 Clifton Rd., NE - Mailstop E-10, Atlanta, GA 30333