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The Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) is pleased to announce the fifth release of Reportable Conditions Knowledge Management System (RCKMS) content for electronic case reporting (eCR) of 82 nationally notifiable conditions (NNCs) and 17 non-notifiable conditions. RCKMS stores comprehensive information on public health reporting requirements and acts as a decision support service (DSS) to […]

The conditions that were announced in the CSTE June 8th Content Release are now available in the RCKMS Tool. With this release, there are now a total of 89 conditions available for authoring in the RCKMS Tool. Click here to review the Content Release materials. We encourage all jurisdictions to review the details of the Content

If you missed the last Authoring Support Office Hours on June 4th, don’t worry. We provided a link to the recording (see below).  During this session, we covered the new SNOMED condition code update for version 7 of COVID-19  plus an guided walk-through of how to author COVID-19.  Feel free to submit a support ticket

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

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.

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

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

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

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