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Greetings RCKMS Users, On Friday, March 27th, 2025, two new conditions (COVID-19-Associated Pediatric Mortality and Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections) from the February 2026 Content Release (Content Release 15) were added to the RCKMS Authoring Tool.  Additionally, updated versions of 50 previously released conditions were made available for jurisdiction adoption. With this release, there are now 262 conditions (94 […]

Greetings RCKMS Users, On Friday, August 29th, 2025, 15 new Birth Defect and Infant Disorder conditions, 1 new Healthcare-Associated Event condition, and 1 new Vectorborne Disease condition from the July 2025 Content Release (Content Release 14) were added to the RCKMS Authoring Tool.  Additionally, updated versions of 33 previously released conditions were made available for

On May 21, CDC (sender: [email protected]) 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) <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2025 1:40 PM Subject: Optimizing Electronic Case Reporting   Dear eCR Partners, We

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

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,

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

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,

Greetings RCKMS users: Ahead of the anticipated respiratory disease season, the National eCR team is pleased to announce an off-schedule RCKMS content release with updates to the conditions listed below. The primary updates for these conditions are the addition of timeboxing rules, updates to reportable condition trigger codes (RCTC), and updates to SNOMED condition codes.

Greetings RCKMS Users! Please note some upcoming important dates:  Thursday, June 1 at 3-4 pm ET: RCKMS Educational Session – Timeboxing Use Cases  The RCKMS Administrators will present an educational session to prepare users for the upcoming initial release supporting timeboxing in RCKMS. During this session, we will walk through specific eICR scenarios to identify

Greetings RCKMS Users, On Monday, July 11, 2022, 40 new conditions from the June 2022 Content Release were added to the RCKMS Authoring Tool. Additionally, new versions of 16 previously released conditions were made available for jurisdiction adoption. Note that CSTE previously released an updated version of Monkeypox and new Orthopoxvirus Disease reporting specifications on