Purpose
Here is the quarterly overview. Come here to see a snapshot of NSSP updates that have happened recently.
Recent News
Onboarding Update
On March 2, 2025, the NSSP Onboarding team hosted the BioSense Platform Data Validation call. Topics of discussion included:
Access and Management Center (AMC) Master Facility Table (MFT) adding an American Hospital Association Identifier (AHA ID)
- In the past, NSSP was able to send website to sites to get AHA ID. AHA has recently made this site 'members only.'
- Sites must now either reach out to hospital for ID or leave blank and NSSP will try to populate it if we have it.
New field in MFT primary facility
- New Field: Populate ESSENCE region by
- Options may be selected by facility to populate ESSENCE_Region for the facility from either the zip code (default) or the county. Current default logic pulls ESSENCE_Region by the geographic centroid of the zip code and may not accurately reflect the county where the facility is located. This change will only affect the ESSENCE_Region of the facility and will not affect the ESSENCE_Region by Patient Location. Making this change will trigger a review by Onboarding
Events and Reminders
1CDP Transition. Through the Public Health Data Strategy, CDC has developed a roadmap to public health data modernization. One CDC Data Platform, or 1CDP, is a crucial accelerator of the Public Health Data Strategy. As an enterprise platform for the agency and its partners, 1CDP provides efficiencies that save time and resources to support data to action more quickly. NSSP is building out 1CDP capabilities to manage data ingest and message processing and will be able to take advantage of platform tools to work with the emergency department and commercial laboratory data.
Call for Inpatient Hospitalization Data! Please join the conversation on the Slack® channel, Hospital Admissions / Inpatient Data, or email nssp@cdc.gov if your site is reporting or is interested in provisioning inpatient data to the BioSense Platform. We welcome sites to share their experiences! NSSP would also like to hear from site administrators interested in discussing inpatient onboarding for their jurisdictions. Please email nssp@cdc.gov and an NSSP team member will respond to set up a meeting to discuss next steps.
Updates to NSSP Data Dictionary Available. The NSSP Data Dictionary now includes a tab of terms and definitions. Community members have posted questions on Slack® about how ESSENCE maps changes to sex data.
NSSP Governance Framework. This document summarizes data sharing, access, and dissemination for the program. The rules outlined have been drafted consistent with the terms of the Core Data Use Agreement (DUA) and NSSP Addendum. Reach out to nssp@cdc.gov for more information.
Newly Cleared Fact Sheets. CSTE is in the process of adding newly cleared factsheets to the Knowledge Repository.
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Upcoming Calls and Community Discussions
Save the Date
- BioSense Platform Data Validation CallThe next will be held at 3:00 pm ET on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
Syndrome Definition and Community of Practice Updates
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By the Numbers
- More than 7,200 health care facilities covering 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam contribute data to NSSP daily.
- Within 24 hours of a patient’s ED visit, data are available in NSSP for analysis.
- 83% of U.S. emergency departments send data to NSSP, often within 24 hours.
- More than 9.6 million electronic health messages are received by NSSP every day.