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CASE STUDY

“Information System Help


Prevent a Public Health
Crisis”

Presented by :-
Rajveer Singh (PGDM-MM)
Irfan Ahmad (PGDM-MM)
ØIn the world you are find many dire
prediction about large scale loss of life
from biological or chemical attack or an
avain influenza.

ØOn may 3,2006 the United States


Government issued on Implication plan
for Pandemic Influenza to improve
coordination among federal ,state, and
local authorities.

ØOn such initiative is the BioSence Real-


Time Clinical Connections Program
Developed by the U.S Federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
ØBioSence sits atop a hospitals existing
information system , continually
gathering and analyzing their data
through software
ØThe software converts these data to the
HL7 data messaging format.

ØThe system summerizes and presents


analytical results by source,day, for
each ZIP code ,state, and metropolitan
area using maps, graph and tables.
ØRegistered state and local public health
agencies as well as hospitals and health
care providers are allowed to access
data that pertain to their jurisdiction.
ØThe traditional process for public health
surveillance is manual and much
slower.

ØHospitals, physicians and laboratories


would mail or fax paper report to public
health agencies, who would then call
health care providers for more detailed
information.

ØBioSence first became operational in
2004, when it began gathering daily
data from U.S. Defence Department
and Veterans Affairs (VA) Hospitals and
Laboratory Corporation of America

ØIn late 2005,CDC started to expand the
BioSence network to civilian hospitals
in major metropolitan areas and
sharing the data.

ØThe CDC expects to connect 300


hospitals to Biosence by the end of
2006.

ØTo transmit data to BioSence, each


hospital must standardize its patient
and other medical data.

ØMost Hospitals use their own coding
systems for symptoms, disease
and medications.
ØCDC’s contractors would have to
work with the hospitals to
translate its data codes in to the
standards used by CDC’Ss
software.
Ø
Q-1. Describe and Diagram the existing
process for reporting and identifying
major public health problems, such as
a flu pendemic.

Q-2. How does BioSence improve this


process?
 Diagram the process for reporting and
identifying public health problem using
BioSence.
Q-3.Discuss the pros and cons of
adopting BioSence for Public
health surveillance. Should all
hospitals and public health
agencies switch to BioSence ?
Why or why not ?

1.-Existing process for reporting and

identifying major public health


problem

 Hospitals, Physicians, Laboratory


 Mail/Fax

 Public Health Agency


 Call

2.- Diagram-process for reporting and identifying
public health problem using BioSence
 Hospital Existing Information
System

Custom software

 The HL7 Data Messaging Format


 Transmit

 CDC
THANK YOU

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