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Documenting Business Processes in Public Health

Local Health Departments Business Processes
Source: http://www.phii.org/programs/ACollaborationtoDefineLocalPublicHealthBusinessProcesses.asp
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PHII Common Grounds Project
“We hope to develop a shared understanding of public health work and identify areas of commonality among public health agencies,” said
Dave Ross, Sc.D., director of the Common Ground
National Program Office at the Public Health
Informatics Institute. “The Common Ground program offers public health agencies the opportunity to collaboratively develop requirements for more effective information systems and better data exchange.”
Source: http://www.phii.org/programs/CommonGround.asp
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Common Grounds Project

Cabarrus Health Alliance
Common Ground: EMR/Practice Management Evaluation Project
Results
http://www.cabarrushealth.org/commonground/
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Common Grounds Project
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Business Process Matrix for Public Health
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Common Grounds Project: Cabbarus Health Alliance
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Use case scenarios were developed to guide vendors in demonstrating their products to ensure the most important features and functionality were viewed by the project team
Use Case: Child Health
Use Case: Family Planning
Use Case: Maternal Care Coordination
Use Case: Maternal Health
Use Case: Sexually Transmitted Disease
Use Case: Tuberculosis
Source: http://www.cabarrushealth.org/CommonGround/Methodology/index.htm
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Communicable Disease
Source: http://www.cabarrushealth.org/CommonGround/Methodology/index.htm
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Syndromic Surveillance
Final Recommendation
The Core Processes & EHR Requirements of Public Health Syndromic Surveillance
Source: http://syndromic.org/uploads/files/ISDSRecommendation-PROVISIONAL_vFINAL.pdf
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Interdependencies
Source: http://syndromic.org/uploads/files/ISDSRecommendation-PROVISIONAL_vFINAL.pdf
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Syndromic Surveillance

Business
Process 1
(BP1):
Conduct
Syndrome-
Based
Population
Health
Monitoring
Source: http://syndromic.org/uploads/files/ISDSRecommendation-PROVISIONAL_vFINAL.pdf
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