2_use_case_name: DCIPHER (SEDRIC) AIP for Advanced Foodborne Outbreak Investigation (Receipt Reading)
3_agency: Department of Health and Human Services
3_abr: HHS
4_bureau: CDC
8_topic_area: Mission-Enabling (internal agency support)
10_commercial_ai: None of the above.
11_purpose_benefits: This AI solution impacts the process of investigating foodborne disease outbreaks. These foodborne outbreaks require cooperative efforts from CDC staff, FDA, USDA, and local agencies and the AI system is used through a centralized data platform System for Enteric Disease Response, Investigation, and Coordination (also known as SEDRIC). For more information on SEDRIC, please go to our website: https://www.cdc.gov/foodborne-outbreaks/php/foodsafety/tools/index.html

SEDRIC's AIP use case provides CDC epidemiologists the ability to accelerate their investigations of multi-state foodborne disease outbreaks by more effectively leveraging data available in a rich data source, such as receipts from grocery stores, that otherwise requires extensive time and human effort to parse through. In addition, this workflow would free up epidemiologists' time and, potentially, increase the frequency with which both CDC and STLT partners could utilize shopper card, receipts, and free text responses to support investigations. Manually entering receipt information, shopper card information, or other such free text field is traditionally error prone and time intensive for a variety of information. This AI system provides a human-in-the-loop opportunity to review and update data entry points while reducing time spent by staff to gain these insights. Having a set structured output as well increased standardization of this information and eases reporting in situations requiring cooperation from multiple organizations.
12_outputs: Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP) available within SEDRIC provides CDC epidemiologists the power to accelerate their investigations of multi-state foodborne disease outbreaks. It can extract structured data from grocery receipts, shopper card records, and free-text responses in order to catalog the food items purchased by affected patients. It can also map those items to SEDRIC-defined vehicles which categorize the items and highlight commonalities across patients, helping to pinpoint potential outbreak vehicles.
16_dev_stage: Operation and Maintenance
17_impact_type: Neither
18_date_initiated: 10/1/2023
19_date_acq_dev_began: 10/1/2023
20_date_implemented: 2/1/2024
21_date_retired:  
22_dev_method: Developed with contracting resources.
24_hisp_support:  
25_hisp_name:  
26_public_service:  
27_public_info: No
28_iqa_compliance:  
29_contains_pii: No
30_saop_review: No
31_data_catalog: No
33_agency_data: Data are used in outbreak/response scenarios, such as foodborne illness outbreak response. Data used is dependent on the situation and outbreak, and may be owned by CDC, FDA, USDA, State Health Departments, Tribal Health Departments, Local Health Departments, Territorial Health Departments, or other entities.
34_data_docs: Documentation has been partially completed
37_custom_code: Yes
38_code_access: Yes – agency has access to source code, but it is not public.
39_code_link:  
40_has_ato: Yes
41_system_name: 1 CDC Data Platform (1CDP)
42_dev_tools_wait: Less than 6 months
43_infra_provisioned: Yes
45_compute_request: Yes
47_timely_resources: Yes
49_existing_reuse: Use of existing data platforms: This use case is being developed on existing enterprise data and analytics platforms within the agency rather than procuring additional platforms or SaaS to operate.
50_internal_review: Documentation has been published: Complete documentation has been published to a repository or data catalog within the agency and is made accessible to other data science teams for review and feedback.