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Healthscape: An information management and accountability tool for public health services. Community and Public Health – A Division of the Canterbury District Health Board. Introduction.
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Healthscape: An information management and accountability tool for public health services Community and Public Health – A Division of the Canterbury District Health Board
Introduction • The work of a population and public health unit, such as Community and Public Health (C&PH), is characterised by a very wide range of service provision and activities. • This broad scope of activity is characterised by service provision in “settings”. Often, different teams from C&PH interact with the same external entities, but for provision of different services. • Healthscape is an online information system which has been developed to integrate information management, accountability and reporting requirements across the range of C&PH activities, conceptually in much the same way as a patient management system integrates information about an individual patient’s care. • The system has been developed to make use of existing IT infrastructure and software, delivering a high degree of functionality with low opportunity cost. • Activity and entity records and reports are freely configurable and adaptable through the system’s user interface, significantly reducing the need for technical intervention and re-design to meet changes in service provision, alterations in organisational structure, and different reporting and accountability requirements.
Prior state: numerous overlapping, mutually inconsistent poorly maintained information sets in a number of different technical formats and software platforms, no differentiation between operational data and reporting information. Access and security issues Current / future state: Still numerous and different information management and reporting needs, but now managed through a freely available, consistent, user-driven interface and a consolidated information system. Healthscape user interface, presenting configurable record types, forms and reports Healthscape database
Key Healthscape Data Objects Definable attributes Definable attributes An LEP can be associated with >= 1 contact person. A contact must be associated with >= 1 LEP Locations / Entities / Processes - LEPs (Things) Contacts (People) An LEP can be associated with >= 1 action. An action must be associated with >= 1 LEP Actions (Work undertaken) Staff Reporting Tags