Infections Disease Reporting to State Health Depts

Good morning all,

Those of you that report ID results especially Covid can you tell me how you are handling reporting the results to the state health department of the patients residence?  We have a system for our state but our kids come from other states so I wanted to see if anyone had come up with a good plan for reporting out to other states.

 

Thanks

Adonica

*Effective September 2, 2020, laboratories subject to US regulations performing testing intended to detect SARS-CoV-2 or to diagnose a possible case of COVID-19 must report positive and negative results to local or state health authorities in a standardized format and at a frequency specified by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to include all molecular, antigen, and antibody test methods used in laboratories with all types of CLIA certificates. This requirement applies to COVID-19 tests of all levels of complexity (including waived). Laboratories not in compliance by September 23, 2020 may be subject to sanctions and civil money penalties from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This requirement also applies to the Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs laboratories for testing performed in the United States and its territories. The reporting requirement does not apply to surveillance testing (used to gain information at a community or population level, rather than an individual level) where patient-specific test results are not reported.