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Information system of European Centre
for Disease Prevention and Control
EPIS
Dr Mollet Thomas MD MSc, PRU
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control
Istanbul, 25 September, 2009
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What is EPIS ?
A communication tool:
 Application for risk assessment entities to exchange non-structured and
semi-structured information regarding current or emerging public health
threats with a potential impact in the EU.
 A real-time international platform through which a network of experts can
rapidly share information and data in a way which is fully transparent.
EPIS is a risk assessment tool, not a risk management tool.
Why using EPIS?
Added values:
 No more emails
 Secure website
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Discussing risk assessment, response and preparedness
Posting & reply to Urgent Inquiries
Uploading/downloading documents
Linking with other application , e.g. TTT or EWRS
Creating questionnaires, summary tables, epi curves, etc
Producing monthly report
How is organised EPIS?
The overall design consists of four levels of forums to which the users of
EPIS would have restricted or full reading and writing access. Each level
of forum is associated with a specific function.
Generic DSP
Denomination
Level 1
No potential health threat at
European level
Level 2
Potential health threat at
European level
Level 3
Health threat at
European level
FWD
Denomination
General discussion
forum
FWD network
Urgent inquiry
FWD network
Epidemic intelligence
forum
Level 4
Health threat at
European level
Users
Ad hoc/threat
assessment forum
FWD network and Epidemic
Intelligence network
ECDC and European
response team
What is the escalation process?
EPIS
Levels
Level 4
Escalation
Process
Escalation to level 4
ECDC DSP or ECDC EI
Level 3
Escalation to level 3
Level 2
Launching an UI
ECDC DSP staff
DSP network
Level 1
FWD
Denomination
Ad-Hoc
/response
Epidemic
intelligence
Urgent
Inquiry
General
discussion
Who are the users?
AMR/
HCAI
STI
VPD
FWD
EWGLI
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Who are the users?
The members of the DSP
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Experts
Non experts
EU
Non-EU
 The EI network
 EI ECDC
 EI MS
 Guest
What does EPIS look like?
MOSS 2007®
How EPIS interact with the other tools?
TESSy
DSP/EI networks
Other sources
EPIS
Create a threat
TTT
+ Ad-Hoc (EPIS)
EWRS
Threat assessment
Crisis
CMT
EWRS:
TTT:
EPIS:
CMT:
TESSy:
Early Warning Response System
Threat Tracking Tool
Epidemic Intelligence System
Crisis Management Tool
The European Surveillance System
EWRS
 Communication platform for risk management
 Legal basis: Decision 2000/57/EC.
 Designed and managed by the EC, ECDC hosts the EWRS since Nov 2007
 MS health authorities report control measures taken for public health
events with EU relevance
What is different from EWRS?
Risk assessment, detection
and verification
Investigation, contact tracing,
outbreak assistance team
ECDC
Risk management,
control measures
SANCO-C3
DSP forum
EI forum
MS risk
assessment
bodies
Ad-Hoc/response
forum
EPIS forums
EWRS
MS risk
management
bodies/MOH
What is different from EWRS?
EWRS
EPIS
Objective of the application
Risk management
Risk assessment
Nature of the information
Structured
Semi/non structured
Participation of the users
Mandatory
Voluntary basis
Functionality
General application
Customisation per DSP
Conclusion
EPIS is an advanced platform that allows real time
discussion among risk assessment bodies.
This application is one more instrument in our
toolbox available to face public health threats at the
European level.
Thanks You