Reporting of cases of infectious diseases and related conditions began in 1874 when the State Board of Health of Massachusetts inaugurated a plan for the weekly voluntary reporting of prevalent diseases by physicians (1). Since that time, infectious disease reporting has been pivotal in managing yellow fever quarantines, poliomyelitis epidemics, and influenza pandemics. Today, all states and territories of the United States participate in a national morbidity reporting system and regularly report aggregate or case-specific data for 49 infectious diseases and related conditions to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GA (2). Data on selected notifiable infectious diseases are published weekly in the MMWR and at year-end in the annual Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States.

Since LAB TRACKER^™ HIV is first and foremost an Electronic Medical Records system, collecting and submitting entered data can be made relatively easy. LAB TRACKER^™ HIV will guide the clinician through the steps for generating an Adult HIV/AIDS Confidential Case Report that may be submitted to the appropriate local health officials within a clinician’s state or territory and meet or exceed the CDC’s minimum surveillance practices and standards requirements.