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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Craig A. Mason, PhD and Shihfen Tu. University of Maine, 5717 Corbett Hall, Room 3, Orono, ME 04469, (207)581-9059, craig.mason@umit.maine.edu
This presentation will describe Child LINK, a University of Maine/Bureau of Health collaboration that electronically links State of Maine electronic birth certificate records, metabolic screening records, birth defects registry, and universal newborn hearing screen. This presentation will illustrate how Child LINK goes beyond simply being a surveillance database, but in fact puts the tools and information of public health in the hands of health care professionals around the state. Child LINK will automate the universal newborn hearing screen tracking and mandated reporting requirements for hospitals and healthcare providers. Furthermore, it will allow hospital personnel to be able to generate on-demand a variety of individualized reports describing demographics and prevalence for births within their hospital, as well as aggregate information comparing their hospital with other hospitals, or the state as a whole. In addition, the Child LINK database can also be used for assessing and monitoring children born with various birth defects or metabolic disorders. The presentation will also review a number of key strengths built into Child LINK. For example, Child LINK is organized so that information can easily be grouped on the family-level. Specifically, it will be possible to identify family patterns based on children being full- or half-siblings. This will be valuable in examining genetic patterns or environmental risks. Finally, the presentation will explain various security features built into Child LINK, including 24/7 active monitoring intrusion detection that enables unauthorized users to be expelled from the system, rather than simply generating logs of such occurrences.
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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.