• Once logged into EDN you will be brought to the My Applications page.
• Click on the EDN (Electronic Disease Notification)

• To download an overseas packet for an individual or family, click on the Batch Print tab.

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• You may search for an individual or family by file number (case number) or Alien number

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• Insert number and click on show list.

• If the individual is in EDN they will appear under the Resulting Aliens box

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• If searching under case number for a family each individual associated with that case number will appear in the Resulting Aliens Box.

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• If the individual or family you are searching does not appear, it may mean that they are not in EDN or you may also try searching for them under Alien Search, which we will go over later on in the training.

• Once you have searched for the individual, you want to click on the individual on the Resulting Alienis tab to highlight the individual and then click on Select Alien tab and move the individual over to the Searched Alien box.
• If you are working on a family case you must move each individual over to Searched Alien Tab, but you may do it at the same time, by highlighting each individual

• Once the individual/individuals are moved over to the Searched Alien box you are ready to begin your downloads
• The first tab you want check is the “Open Electronic Documents”

EDN may have combined all of the overseas documents already and if they have they will place it under that tab. If you do not see any documents saved on that tab then you will need to download each document individually.

• You want to to double click on the “Open Electronic Document Tab”.

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• Remember, you may not find documents for every case in this tab. EDN is currently working on a transition to get combined documents into that section.

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• From the Alien Information page, click on the save symbol on the top right of the page. A drop down will appear and you will want to save the file as a PDF to your desktop. Once downloaded you should have a full packet for the individual that will include; overseas, Alien Sheet, Vaccination and PDMS.

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• The next tab you want to click on is “Open Scanned Documents” You should be able to download the overseas packet from this tab.

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• A pop a message on the bottom of your browser should come up asking if you would like to save the document. You will need to save the medical package to your computer as PDF.

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• The next tab to click on is the “Open Alien Information Only” tab. You will find the individuals Alien Sheet from this tab.

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• Double Click on the tab

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• From the Alien Information page, click on the save symbol on the top right of the page. A drop down will appear and you will want to save the file as a PDF to your desktop.

• You will want to repeat the same steps for the “Open Vaccinations Only” tab and the “ Open PDMS/SMS Forms Only” tab.

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• If searching for a secondary or an individual that has been granted refugee status over a year ago you will want to search for the individual from the “Alien Search’ tab.

• Once on the Alien Search page you may search by Alien Number, File Number or Name.
• It is important to put in an arrival date, when searching from this section.

• The next couple of slides will go over the EDN training provided on their website, specific to batch printing.

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• To access the full training guide please visit the help section in EDN https://csams.cdc.gov/EDN/Gen_Pages/Help.aspx.