Our Guest – Dr. Stephanie Bailey, Dean and Director of Public Health Initiatives, College of Health Sciences, TN State University Over the years, physicians and healthcare providers have played a role in addressing many of the non-medical issues – absolutely! Doctors are educated – you learn to take the history, you learn to do the […]
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Three easy steps to increase reimbursements for public health departments. How a modern Electronic Health Record software can be your friend. Over the past few years, local health departments have continued to see their budgets shrink. Federal government has mandated that all clinics, including public health, must adopt a federally certified Electronic Health Record […]
Read More(Nash County) — After a 2-year research project, Nash County Health Department selected a new Electronic Health Records (EHR) and billing system to replace their existing software. In November 2014 they went live with Patagonia Health EHR, a Cary, NC-based public health focused EHR vendor. Nash County had been using their existing EHR system […]
Read MoreCommunity Health Assessments (CHAs) have been around for more than 20 years and are used by Local Health Departments (LHDs) to develop a 3 or 4 year Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). If your county has not conducted a CHA within the last couple of years, here are some changes the North Carolina Institute for […]
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Once all community EHRs are connected via Health Information Exchange (HIE) it will be powerful for public health departments to see real-time disease spreading statewide via syndromic surveillance and GIS mapping. Concentrating on local community concerns, public health departments strategize on policies and tactics used to protect and improve the health of their community. […]
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