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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Derek Chapman, PhD, Richard C. Urbano, PhD, and David Law, PhD. Tennessee Department of Health, Cordell Hull Bldg., 6th Floor/BHI, 425 Fifth Ave. North, Nashville, TN 37247, 615-532-7902, derek.chapman@state.tn.us
The Bureau of Health Informatics at the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is currently building a data warehouse and is engaged in a number of projects utilizing various linked datasets to guide policy and program decisions.
This presentation will be given in two parts. First, Richard Urbano, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Health Informatics (TDH) will describe Children’s Information Tennessee (CIT), a multi-department initiative linking demographic and program participation information on children with special healthcare needs in a central database system managed by TDH. The CIT system was designed to facilitate care coordination and provide a research basis to guide policy decisions.
Next, Derek Chapman, Epidemiologist, will describe and present research examples from some of the many ongoing TDH projects which utilize our data warehouse. We are currently establishing a statewide passive Birth Defects Surveillance System (BDSS) in Tennessee to complement our active system piloted in Northeast Tennessee. Birth defect- related information from the following integrated datasets will be used: Medicaid, hospital discharge, metabolic/genetic screening, early hearing detection/intervention, vital records (birth, death, and fetal deaths), and Tennessee early intervention system. Other MCH issues which have been addressed using our data warehouse include family planning utilization among Medicaid recipients and long-term outcomes for children in the WIC program.
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Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.