After the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), Accenture and a team of companies have created a solution to help Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) ensure long-term preparedness to meet future public health challenges.
Rachel Oldham, Manager at Accenture, will discuss the work her team has been doing to address the needs of DCHHS in the following session. HIMSS Global Conference & Exhibition Next week in OrlandoDallas County Public Health Disease Surveillance and Investigation System. ”
Oldham shared highlights from the following sessions Mobi Health News And Oldham and the other panelists hope participants will take away from the discussion.
Mobi Health News: Can you tell us about the upcoming sessions at HIMSS24 and what will be discussed?
Rachel Oldham: We join Dr. Huang, Director of Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS), to discuss the disease modernization efforts our integrated team has been working on over the past three and a half years.
In the first part of the conversation, Dr. Huang will provide an overview of the project's background, best practices, and solution overview.
The audience will then be guided through a platform demo that showcases some of the key capabilities that Accenture has built on the DCHHS goals. Some of these features we will cover include reducing manual work, explaining some of the integrations that have been set up, explaining the data governance activities that will take place, and how to provide researchers with their 360-degree view of patient information. Contains a description of. .
We conclude the conversation by describing the outcomes and improvements these efforts have brought to DCHHS and the impact on public health. If I have time left, I'd like to answer questions and move the conversation toward opportunities for collaboration and improvement ideas.
MHN: What are the characteristics of Dallas County's surveillance system? Will it be useful to the public and private health care sectors?
Oldham: Dallas County's surveillance system is a superior solution built to serve more than 2.6 million residents, more than some states.
Dr. Huang's leadership has enabled Dallas County to work with Accenture to do something that many other local governments and even states have not been able to do.
The system serves as a comprehensive system that integrates data from multiple public health and social services and breaks down disparate data silos. This is a source of truth that investigators can leverage to focus on how they can better address public health problems, rather than spending time on manual steps to capture, organize, cleanse, and report information. It becomes the source.
The system currently supports public health, and the team is developing interoperability with healthcare provider services, including Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR)-based exchange and Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Contracts (TEFCA) adoption. We are looking at different pilots to improve. future.
MHN: What do you hope participants will take away from your session?
Oldham: Collaboration was key for both the Accenture and DCHHS teams on this disease modernization project. This is something the entire industry is facing, so our goal is to have mutually beneficial presentations and conversations about these efforts.
As presenters, we hope that attendees will provide valuable insights into what we see in our reports and daily processes that will help us improve our solutions.
From the participants' perspective, we hope that our sessions will generate ideas on how to enhance their workflows, introduce different collaboration opportunities, and get ideas for solutions for the future.
The Dallas County Public Health Disease Surveillance System will be held on Wednesday, March 13th from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ET at W308A at HIMSS24 in Orlando. Details and registration.