CDC to Extend Partnership Supporting Disease Monitoring, Response
The CDC and Palantir are extending their work on public health surveillance and outbreak response through the DCIPHER Program.
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By - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and software company Palantir Technologies Inc. announced an extension of their 10-year partnership to address outbreak response and disease surveillance through the Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response (DCIPHER) Program.
According to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), DCIPHER “is a cloud-based platform used across CDC programs, in the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), by other federal partners, and by state, local, tribal, and territorial public health jurisdictions to collect, collate, share, and link multiple sources of public health, outbreak, and event response data. It is designed to facilitate data interpretation and to inform public health decisions.”
DCIPHER has been used to handle foodborne illness outbreaks, counter Ebola, as well as manage respiratory, anthrax, and bacterial special pathogens. Additionally, the program helps address genomics-specific data challenges. Programs currently utilizing DCIPHER include the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), the System for Enteric Disease Response, Investigation, and Coordination (SEDRIC), and the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) within the CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
