Leveraging Public Health Data in California for the Benefit of All

• Dan Desmond, The SIMI Group
• Dr. Bela Matyas, Health Officer, Solano County California

Community Leadership + Data = Improving Health with the Internet
California Case Studies

Real time data sharing between Community Clinics, Social Services and Hospitals

I. Community Health Data – leveraging public health data for the benefit of all

• Critical Public Health Data
• Data of Community Interest
• Actionable Data for the “Public’s Health”

II. Use Case example – seasonal influenza, vaccine effectiveness and surveillance

• Public health data applied to real-world problems
• Letting the data tell the story
• The power of visualization

III. Use Case example – air quality, environmental monitoring, asthma and clinical care

• The nexus of individual, clinical, community, public and population health
• Empowering individual health decisions
• Sharing to benefit all

IV. Use Case example – H.E.A.T.

• The power of “interoperability by design”
• Public health integration with clinical care and EHRs
• Community situation awareness