Monitoring dental care access and oral health status data is important to the people of South Carolina, to public and private oral and primary health care providers, to government agencies, and to those working in oral health prevention. The South Carolina Oral Health Program’s Oral Health Surveillance System is dedicated to:
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Updated: Oct. 27, 2025
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).
South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC DHEC) 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.
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:
