The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to announce the fourth release of Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) content for all nationally notifiable conditions (NNCs). RCKMS stores comprehensive information on public health reporting requirements and acts as a decision support service (DSS) to determine if a potential case is reportable and to […]
RCKMS Content Release 4 – June 2020 Read More »
A new version of the COVID-19 reporting specifications (7.0 Release 2020527) has been released. Version 7.0 includes a new SNOMED condition code. Please see release notes below for details. Potential impact on your surveillance system When an eICR is found reportable for COVID-19, the COVID-19 Condition Code is output in the Reportability Response as the
SNOMED Condition Code Update – COVID-19 Read More »
A new version of the COVID-19 reporting specifications (6.0 Release 2020506) has been released. Version 6.0 includes the addition of laboratory criteria for culture tests. Please see release notes below for details. For your convenience, the RCKMS team has added version 6.0 into your account and copied over your existing rules and references for COVID-19.
Updated Reporting Specifications for COVID-19 Available for Re-authoring (05.06.20) Read More »
A new version of the COVID-19 reporting specifications (5.0 Release 20200415) has been released. Version 5.0 aligns the Default in RCKMS with the new CSTE Interim COVID-19 Position Statement. Please see release notes below for details. For your convenience, the RCKMS team has added version 5.0 into your account and copied over your existing external
Updated Reporting Specifications for COVID-19 Available (04.15.20) Read More »
On April 9th, 2020, value sets for COVID-19 were updated with additional LOINC codes for antibody and nucleic acid tests. Please see release notes below for details. No re-authoring or re-publishing is needed. The updated COVID-19 guidance document created by the RCKMS content team and updated RCTC can be found in the Content Repository linked
COVID-19: Updated Value Sets Read More »
Please be advised that the RCKMS Office Hours, originally scheduled for April 2 & April 16, have been rescheduled for Thursday, May 21 & Thursday June 4, 2020. Each session will be held at 3:00 pm ET. The authoring schedule with the new office hours dates is attached to this post. Calendar invites will be
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A new version of the COVID-19 reporting specifications (3.0 Release 20200323) has been released. Version 3.0 of COVID-19 contains all the rules from previous versions, plus the addition of antibody tests. For your convenience, the RCKMS team has added version 3.0 into your account and copied over your existing reporting criteria and external references for
New version of COVID-19 (v3) reporting specifications now available for authoring Read More »
Click here to view the March 19, 2020 authoring support session (~30 mins). This session provides a brief walk-thorough of authoring COVID-19 version 2 lab criteria. We recognize that additional versions of COVID-19 reporting specifications have been released since the date of this recording, however, this session provides some information that you may find helpful.
Missed the most recent office hours? Read More »
A new version of the COVID-19 reporting specifications has been released. For your convenience, the RCKMS team has added the new version into your account and copied over your existing reporting criteria and external references for Coronavirus. To adopt the new version, you will need to review the reporting specification and publish the new version
New version of COVID-19 (v2) reporting specifications now available for authoring Read More »
We are excited to announce the kick-off of the RCKMS Authoring Recognition Competition! The goals of this competition are to increase the number of jurisdictions that have authored, increase the number of conditions authored in the tool and to recognize jurisdictions that have made great strides with authoring. The competition is open to all jurisdictions
2020 RCKMS Authoring Competition Read More »
The Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) is a real-time portal to enhance disease surveillance by providing comprehensive information on public health reporting criteria. The tool provides public health reporters about the “who,what,when, where and how” of reporting.
