Communications

On May 21, CDC (sender: eCR@cdc.gov) emailed the information below to impacted HCOs that have been temporarily delayed in their GoLive activities. The email was sent to the 57 HCOs, their EHR vendor, and associated PHA contacts: == From: eCR (CDC) <ecr@cdc.gov> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 1:40 PM Subject: Optimizing Electronic Case Reporting   Dear eCR Partners, We apologize for recent delays in communication about electronic case reporting (eCR). We understand many of you have questions about onboarding, so we want to provide an update. As we assess and prioritize improvements to the HCO onboarding process in response to increased demands, we have temporarily paused new HCO AIMS onboarding activities and GoLive activities requiring additional testing as of April 17. We plan to

Greetings RCKMS Users,  On Friday, March 28th, 2025, 17 new Birth Defect and Infant Disorder conditions from the February 2025 Content Release (Content Release 13) were added to the RCKMS Authoring Tool.  Additionally, updated versions of 37 previously released conditions were made available for jurisdiction adoption.   With this release, there are now 243 conditions (93 nationally notifiable and 150  non-notifiable conditions) currently available in the tool for authoring and jurisdiction use. Please visit the Content Repository to review reporting specification Word documents and guidance documents.   Please see the in-tool release notifications in RCKMS for a summary of in-tool updates. A complete list of conditions available in RCKMS and Consolidated Release Notes are available here.   Authoring:   Authoring on the RCKMS production environment for the newly released conditions

Greetings RCKMS Users,  On Friday, August 16, 2024, 13 new Birth Defect and Infant Disorder conditions from the June 2024 Content Release (Content Release 12) were added to the RCKMS Authoring Tool. Additionally, updated versions of 112 previously released conditions were made available for jurisdiction adoption. Updates include the addition of timeboxing, pregnancy rule updates, and updates to age-related criteria, including the addition of user defined patient age for selected conditions.  With this release, there are now 226 conditions (93 nationally notifiable and 133 non-notifiable conditions) currently available in the tool for authoring and jurisdiction use. Please visit the Content Repository to review reporting specification Word documents and guidance documents.   Please see the in-tool release notifications in RCKMS for a summary of in-tool updates.

Greetings RCKMS Users,  On Thursday, April 4, 2024, 3 new conditions from the February 2024 Content Release (Content Release 11) were added to the RCKMS Authoring Tool (Invasive Cronobacter Infection Among Infants, Congenital cytomegalovirus (cCMV) infection and disease, and Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome). Additionally, new versions of 103 previously released conditions were made available for jurisdiction adoption. With this release, there are now 213 conditions (93 nationally notifiable and 120 non-notifiable conditions) currently available in the tool for authoring and jurisdiction use. Please visit the Content Repository to review reporting specification Word documents and guidance documents.   Please see the in-tool release notifications in RCKMS for a summary of in-tool updates. A complete list of conditions available in RCKMS and Consolidated Release Notes* are available here.   Important:

Greetings RCKMS Users!  The Spring 2024 Office Hours Series will be held on April 9th, April 25th, May 7th and May 23rd at 3-4pm ET.   On April 4, 2024, 213 conditions will become available for authoring in the RCKMS tool, including the addition of 3 new conditions in Content Release 11. For each Office Hours session, reviews of specific condition groups will be covered. In addition, Session 1 (April 9th at 3-4pm ET) will include an overview of the Timeboxing Version 2 template. As a note, all versions of new and updated conditions will be using the Timeboxing Version 2 template.  For more details and specific information on which conditions will be discussed at each session, please check out the attached RCKMS Office Hours Schedule.