What is the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS)?

What will be an ideal response?


The National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS), a part of the Public Health Information Network, will promote "integrated surveillance systems that can transfer…public health, laboratory and clinical data…over the Internet." This will be a national electronic surveillance system that will allow epidemics to be identified quickly. Eventually, it will collect data automatically in real time.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Which term means that a person has little or no residual hearing capabilities?

A) Deafness B) Hard of hearing C) Unilateral hearing loss D) Multilateral hearing capacity

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EMR refers to a type of computerized medical record

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Tears are produced by the lacrimal duct.?

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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