Overview

In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors (NACDD) to pilot a surveillance project modeled after a project that was successful in Massachusetts. Called MENDS (Multi-state EHR-based Network for Disease Surveillance), the demonstration will use electronic health record (EHR) data collected in clinical settings leading to a real-time, chronic disease surveillance model to plan and evaluate short-term outcomes of policies and program interventions. For more information on the project, view the MENDS Overview infographic and the MENDS 2-pager.

Partners

Groups guiding the MENDS project include:

• National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
• University of Massachusetts Lowell
• Commonwealth Informatics
• Harvard Medical School’s Department of Population Medicine
• Public Health Informatics Institute

Partners piloting the MENDS project include:

• OneHealthPort (Washington State Department of Health)
• REACHnet (Louisiana Public Health Institute)
• AllianceChicago
• Regenstrief Institute