Data Exchange Description

In the State of Washington, the Department of Ecology and the Department of Health have implemented an interagency exchange of fish tissue monitoring data in an effort to better integrate environmental data with human health data. The Department of Health uses web services to access fish tissue sampling results located on the secure Network Node at the Department of Ecology. With the push of a button, authorized users at DOH can automatically incorporate real-time fish tissue sampling data into their Fish Tissue and Birth Defects Assessment Application. DOH is using this new dataset to analyze correlations between fish tissue contamination and instances of birth defects.