Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Information System (EHDI-IS) Surveillance Program

Objective

The objective of this program is to assist EHDI programs in developing and maintaining a sustainable, centralized newborn hearing screening tracking and surveillance system capable of accurately identifying, matching, collecting, and reporting data on all occurrent births that is unduplicated and individually identifiable. Additionally, for those programs with fully developed EHDI information systems, program will enhance the electronic system capacity to collect data, and exchange data accurately, effectively, securely, and consistently between the EHDI-IS and Electronic Health Record Systems (HER-S).

Who Can Apply

• Unrestricted by Entity Type

Who Benefits

• U.S. Territories
• Profit organization
• Private nonprofit institution/organization
• State
• Local
• Public nonprofit institution/organization
• Federally Recognized Indian Tribal Governments

State and local governments or their Bona Fide Agents (this includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau

Assistance Types

• Cooperative Agreement

Program Contact

sgriswold@cdc.gov
4047182623