Divya Narayanan
ScM Candidate
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Supervisor: Mike Fried
Chief Information Officer, Baltimore City Health Department
May 6, 2016
 Baltimore
City Health Department
(BCHD) Organization
 Methods
and Approach
 Description
 Limitations
of Databases
and Challenges
 Recommendations
Commissioner of
Health
Division of Aging
and Care Services
Administrative
Services
Community
Services
Client Services
Advocacy
Services
Adult and
Geriatric Services
Division of Youth
Wellness and
Community Health
Chronic Disease
Prevention
Asthma and Lead
Prevention
 One
of the oldest health departments in
the country
 Grant-funded
 Wide
work
range of projects and services
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Identifying existing information and how to best
restructure
Working on the development of a new database
Obtaining demographic information for use in
the development of a master patient indicator
Contributing to the design of future databases
Data
collection
Data
management
Data
analysis
 Meetings
with users of the databases
 Researching
 Data
new database structures
dictionaries and exploration
 Generation
of a unique ID
 Document
and external referral
management
 Quality
control
 Case
management of children with
poisoning and buildings with lead paint
 Manual
data entry from external referrals
 Monthly
 Unique
quality control
ID
 Originally
a combination of Lead and
Asthma
 Developed
by the city
 Manual
entry based on referrals
 Quality
control
Time, accessibility
to resources
Time, accessibility
for future
implementation
Confidentiality
(MPI)
 Eliminate
data redundancy
 Combination
 Master
of smaller databases
Patient Indicator (MPI)
 Improved
documentation across systems
and divisions
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Baltimore City Health Department
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Mike Fried
Steve Litzenberger
Wayne Johnson
Wynona China
Aging and Care Division
Darcy Phelan-Emrick
PHASE
• Beth Resnick
• Paulani Mui
Thank you!