1. The Community Guide Branch, Epidemiology Analysis Program Office (EAPO), Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (OSELS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
The Community Guide and the Clinical Guide provide evidence-based recommendations and findings about what works to improve public health. Please access the following links:

Syndromic Surveillance Overview

In South Carolina, Syndromic Surveillance Reporting is used to monitor chief complaint data to help identify events of public health concern, including COVID-19.

The Meaningful Use program offers a Syndromic Surveillance Reporting measure under the Public Health Reporting objective.  The information must be sent in standardized formats that have been developed for sending health-related information between health care information systems.  Data submission and analysis is coordinated at the state health department (DPH).

• Immunization Registry Regulation
• SC Vaccine Program Enrollment Site
• Report Vaccine Data Electronically

Related Topics

• Vaccinations - General Information
• Data and Reports - Immuniza

2020 Declaration:

South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SCDHEC) declares readiness for the Immunization Registry Measure 1 of Objective 8 for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use upon the deployment of the new Immunization Information System (IIS), which will be known as Statewide Immunization Online Network (SIMON). Deployment is tentatively scheduled for September 14, 2020. If the deployment date changes, this statement will be updated to reflect such change.

ELR Overview

The electronic reporting of laboratory results fulfills South Carolina's notifiable disease reporting requirements. Meaningful Use requirements do not preempt applicable state or local laws that govern reporting of notifiable conditions.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) grants an incentive payment to eligible health care professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals that can demonstrate efforts to adopt, implement or upgrade certified electronic health record technology. These incentives were established under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).

To qualify for the EHR incentive payments, hospitals and eligible providers are required to meet at least one of these four public health-related objectives during Stage 1:

Cancer Registry Data Standards & Reporting

NOTE: SC Central Registry will not be able to accept cases in V24 format until  mid-March. If there are further delays, we will notify facilities. Facilities are encouraged to begin 2024 cases in V23, but must be submitted in V24.

As required in Regulation 60-16, Minimum Standards for Licensing Hospitals and Institutional General Infirmaries,  Level I and II hospitals shall review all live births or fetal/neonatal deaths in which the neonate weighed at least 350 grams and less than 1500 grams, utilizing the Department's Very Low Birthweight Self-monitoring Tool.