What Does CHESS Mean for South Carolina?
CHESS offers South Carolina a number of important benefits:
- It improves disease surveillance and response.
- It links hospitals, labs, and physicians to local and state public health professionals.
- It encourages faster reporting of diseases.
- It gives public health care professionals more complete information on cases.
- It builds a reporting database that can be used for detailed analysis.
- It offers flexibility to expand and change as needed.