Infectious disease surveillance, reporting, and control
Local health departments, clinical providers, and laboratories will find information here regarding the reporting and control of infectious disease in Maine. Infectious diseases cause illness, suffering and even death, and place an enormous financial burden on society.
Regulations
Notifiable Conditions List and Forms
Infectious Disease Case Report Forms
Guide for Reporting of Notifiable Conditions
This Laboratory Reporting of Notifiable Conditions assists local boards of health with specific surveillance, response, and reporting responsibilities for infectious diseases reportable to the Maine CDC. Maine CDC Lab Guide 2022 (PDF)
Electronic Case Reporting (eCR)
What is eCR?
Electronic case reporting (eCR) is an automated, real-time exchange of case report information between electronic health records (EHRs) and public health agencies (PHAs) for review and action (disease tracking, case management, and contact tracing). Like traditional reporting, eCR captures critical patient and clinical data regarding demographics, comorbidities, immunizations, medications, and other treatments, but greatly reduces the burden of manual reporting. eCR also allows public health to provide information back to healthcare professionals.
Why eCR?
Electronic case reporting (eCR) replaces antiquated manual reporting methods like faxing or mailing paper forms and instead uses digital technology for automating disease reporting. The result in faster disease detection, streamlined data collection, and the potential for more effective interventions.
eCR enables health care providers to fulfill their mandated reporting requirements and report cases for further investigation from their EHR faster, more accurately, and more reliably than traditional, manual reporting. eCR also allows eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals to satisfy the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) regulatory requirements of the Public Health and Clinical Data Exchange objective for the Promoting Interoperability Program (PIP) and the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS).
Get Started with eCR
- To register for eCR with the Maine CDC, fill out this registration form.
- Register your intent for eCR with the appropriate public health agency. Healthcare facilities that wish to participate in the CMS Promoting Interoperability Program (PIP) and Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) (PDF) must communicate their intent to implement electronic case reporting (eCR) with their state public health agency.
- Partner with your EHR vendor to discuss options for implementing eCR.
- Get approval from your organization's leaders to implement eCR.
Learn more about eCR
- Email ecr@cdc.gov or visit Getting Started with eCR to learn more.
- Work with the eCR team to connect with your public health agency.
Contact us for Disease Reporting:
Phone: 1-800-821-5821 (24 hours a day)
FAX: 1-800-293-7534 (24 hours a day)
TTY: Maine relay 711 (24 hours a day)
Non-confidential reports or requests for consultation can be sent by email to: disease.reporting@maine.gov