Findings from the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists' 2008 Assessment of State Reportable and Nationally Notifiable Conditions in the United States and Considerations for the Future

Although most nationally notifiable conditions were explicitly reportable, we found that many of these conditions have implicit reporting authority in states. As notifiable condition surveillance moves toward an informatics-driven approach, automated electronic case-detection systems will need explicit information about what conditions are reportable. Future work should address the feasibility of standardizing the format of reportable disease lists and nomenclature used to facilitate data aggregation and interpretation across states.