Leveraging Public Health Emergency Informatics during the Fungal Infections Outbreak, Tennessee - 2012

Authors

  • Rendi Murphree Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Paul Petersen Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States
  • Laina Stanford Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States
  • Jeff C. Sexton Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States
  • Tonya McKennley Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States
  • James Milliken Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States
  • Tristan Victoroff Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Robert Newsad Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • Joseph Roth Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5125

Abstract

Late in September 2012, the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) deployed a web-based application for emergency management of ~1,100 patients at-risk of life-threatening fungal  infections following epidural injection of methylprednisolone acetate (MPA) from a single compounding pharmacy.  The custom information system and its successful use in providing situational awareness and decision support during the fungal infections outbreak will be highlighted in this presentation.

Author Biography

Rendi Murphree, Tennessee Department of Health, Nashville, TN, United States; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States

For the past 4 years, Dr. Murphree been assigned to the Tennessee Department of Health - first as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and currently as a Career Epidemiology Field Officer. Her contributions to Tennessee include documenting elephant-to-human tuberculosis transmission, establishing active surveillance for Guillain-Barré Syndrome during the 2009-2010 A/H1N1 influenza vaccination campaign, investigating internal contamination with radioactive strontium following cardiac PET Scan, and coordinating public health follow-up of >1,000 residents at risk of life-threatening infections following contaminated steroid injection.

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Published

2014-03-09

How to Cite

Murphree, R., Petersen, P., Stanford, L., Sexton, J. C., McKennley, T., Milliken, J., … Roth, J. (2014). Leveraging Public Health Emergency Informatics during the Fungal Infections Outbreak, Tennessee - 2012. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v6i1.5125

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Oral Presentations