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SUGI 29 Data Warehousing, Management and Quality Paper 100-29 Data Standardization Strategies Producing Rapid International Disease Surveillance and Intervention: The Challenge and Solution Scott Optenberg, SRO Consulting ABSTRACT Currently there are six infectious diseases: pneumonia, tuberculosis, diarrhoeal disease, malaria, measles, and HIV/AIDS that account for half of all premature deaths from infectious disease in the world. Numerous diseases, once thought eliminated, are returning at an alarming rate, and in the last 20 years over 30 new diseases have emerged: hantavirus, diphtheria, meningitis, cholera, dengue, plague, typhus, HIV/AIDS, Legionnaires', Marburg, CJD, and Ebola, to name a few. The WHO Director-General repeatedly calls for governments to play a stronger role for “improved surveillance systems and better access to global health information." A specific approach to global disease surveillance is currently being implemented within multiple Third World nations. This approach is based on Health Level Seven (HL7) international data processing and management standards and technologies. However, one of the most persistent problems plaguing this type of implementation and adversely affecting the potential efficiency and effectiveness of such a system is the lack of standardization in many of the underlying data tables necessary for system operation. Such lack of standardization has traditionally been either tolerated for lack of an alternative, or if addressed, has been done so in a traditional exception basis that has proven to be only marginally effective and grossly inefficient. Dr. Optenberg will demonstrate 'real time' to the attending audience, directly employing the software tool dfPower Studio 5.0 by DataFlux (a SAS company), the standardization of what, at first review, would appear to be an extremely resource intensive, if not a prohibitively expensive task. NOTE At the time of publication, no paper had been received. Please contact the author. CONTACT INFORMATION Scott Optenberg SRO Consulting [email protected] SAS and all other SAS Institute Inc. product or service names are registered trademarks or trademarks of SAS Institute Inc. in the USA and other countries. ® indicates USA registration. Other brand and product names are trademarks of their respective companies. 1