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Interagency Collaboration

From December 2014 to February 2015, Maricopa County, Arizona was the host site for several high profile events, including Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, and Fiesta Bowl. Public health officials were allocated with implementing numerous enhanced surveillance activities to quickly identify health risks to the public. These included laboratory-based surveillance, mortality surveillance, and syndromic surveillance at select hospitals, urgent cares, hotels, and on-site at the events.

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Vector borne diseases like Japanese Encephalitis (JE) result from the convergence of multiple factors, including, but not limited to, human, animal, environmental, and economic and social determinants. Thus, to combat these problems, it is essential to have a systematic understanding of drivers and determinants based on a surveillance system that systematically gathers and analyzes data emanating from across multiple disciplines.

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Motivated by the global One Health movement, the Washington State Department of Health began a strategic effort to form a One Health Initiative for the state in early 2014. Early research on the topic found that many states were working on One Health, but we did not find any published models of the processes used to establish it as an initiative.

Objective

This presentation describes a model of the process used to form Washington State’s One Health Initiative. We will provide three examples of how the One Health model is being applied to three emerging pathogen issues. Our objective for this information is to provide this model for others to consider who may be seeking to establish One Health Initiatives in their own regions.

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The past decade has seen the rise of many new diseases, and the re-emergence of others which were thought to have been brought under control. This is the combined result of the expansion of global trade and travel, the increases in populations of both humans and animals, and environmental changes. As a result, there should be an effective collaboration among different institutions in each country, and close international cooperation with different stakeholders. The MBDS (Mekong Basin Disease Surveillance) cooperation is a self-organized sub-regional network commenced in 2001.

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In the current state of the health care system there is uneven access to primary care, and too many people struggling to navigate the system are receiving care in the hospital for issues that would be better dealt with in the community, and then are being readmitted to the hospital only days after leaving. To address these issues and improve efficient continuity of care, the Health Links program provides a new model of care at the clinical level in Ontario. In this model all of the patient’s health service providers in the community, including primary care, hospital, and community care, work together to create a coordinated care plan for the patient. The initial focus of Health Links is on highcost users. Health Links, and primary care as a whole, require comprehensive data analysis to effectively support patients and providers. SHIIP is a portal-based technology solution that enhances individual patient care while providing real-time feedback and summarized data to help plan care. The primary objective of SHIIP is to develop an Integrated Portal with core functionalities that will facilitate the sharing of information and enable person-centred care coordination. SHIIP aims to assists the success of Health Links by providing consistent maintenance and sharing of patient records, timely communication and collaboration between a patient’s multiple health care providers, and removing physical barriers through the virtualization of care processes. SHIIP is designed to identify and assist in the delivery of care for complex/high needs patients, and will facilitate reporting, performance monitoring and quality improvement efforts. Some of the anticipated benefits of SHIIP include: enhanced patient experience, reduced workflow duplication, improved access to information at point of care, more efficient clinical documentation, and improved health outcomes. Ultimately, SHIIP helps to improve access and quality of healthcare, and consequently health equity, especially for complex/high-needs patients.

Objective

To describe how the South Eastern Integrated Information Portal (SHIIP) will support the Health Links program with the delivery of care for patients, by facilitating reporting, performance monitoring and quality improvement efforts. The portal-based technology that SHIIP uses to integrate all of a patient’s clinical care information into summarized data and to provide real-time feedback will also be explained.

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Description

Electronic data that could be used for global health surveillance are fragmented across diseases, organizations, and countries. This fragmentation frustrates efforts to analyze data and limits the amount of information available to guide disease control actions. In fields such as biology, semantic or knowledge-based methods are used extensively to integrate a wide range of electronically available data sources, thereby rapidly accelerating the pace of data analysis. Recognizing the potential of these semantic methods for global health surveillance, we have developed the Scalable Data Integration for Disease Surveillance (SDIDS) software platform. SDIDS is a knowledge-based system designed to enable the integration and analysis of data across multiple scales to support global health decision-making. A ‘proof of concept’ version of SDIDS is currently focused on data sources related to malaria surveillance in Uganda.

Objective

To develop a scalable software platform for integrating existing global health surveillance data and to implement the platform for malaria surveillance in Uganda.

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As part of a statewide effort to enhance surveillance for Aedes spp.mosquitoes the Office of Border Health (OBH) took the lead inproviding technical assistance on surveillance in counties bordering Mexico. In 2016, OBH sought ways to enhance surveillance in a wider geographic area. Trap locations closer to the border were established as a priority, given high amount of traffic across the international line, high border Aedesmosquito activity, and native cases of dengue reported at the border in Mexico.

Objective

This surveillance project aims to increase and broaden coverage o fAedes spp. ovitrap locations in Arizona’s U.S.- Mexico border region through interagency collaboration.

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