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Public Health
Public health agencies are on the frontline of bioterrorism preparedness, disaster response, disease containment, and other threats to public health and safety. Additionally, public health organizations provide important, community-based programs, like childhood vaccinations, health inspections and emergency services. Adding to this mix is the expectation that public health providers furnish these services in times of shrinking tax revenues and budget cutbacks. With the advent of service integration, the ability to share clinical data between public health, environmental health, mental health and substance abuse agencies is becoming increasingly common. This introduces requirements for the control of sensitive protected health information, while still allowing management to report on service delivery across the individual and combined agencies. Netsmart is uniquely capable and has demonstrated its ability to provide this solution.
A comprehensive information technology strategy is required to address many of these challenges. Now is the time to review your department’s information management systems and consider how technology can have a dramatic effect on your ability to adapt to this challenging environment.
Netsmart offers a range of public health and vital records solutions for county agencies, cities and statewide implementations of all sizes.
Netsmart Avatar
PH, a public health software solution, is built upon Netsmart’s core Avatar platform that can be used to create statewide and enterprise-wide public health systems which require integration with mental health departments. Avatar PH can also be delivered as a hosted application, Avatar ASP, for organizations that want to eliminate the need to maintain servers locally and reduce upfront costs.
In addition to practice management system, Netsmart offers other solutions to help you effectively manage your business. Avatar Executive Reporting System (ERS) is a powerful data warehouse environment and reporting infrastructure that helps resolve daily reporting requirements, while optimizing the Avatar system to convert data into actionable information and identify areas of improvement.
With the acquisition of QS Technologies, Netsmart also offers the Windows-based Insight product that is built upon an open SQL database. It offers an easy-to-learn, easy-to-use, easy-to-query integrated solution to program-specific needs.
Netsmart also offers QSTVRS, from QS Technologies, to provide a complete vital records system to automate either the State or County Vital Records Department. QSTVRS can accommodate all data entry of records, plus the back office functions necessary to send those records to National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Social Security Administration (SSA) and to any other external agency that needs them.
To solve the sometimes overwhelming duplicate record problem, Netsmart offers a range of Mass Deduplication services and shrink-wrapped products through QS Technologies to meet the challenge of removing duplicates from public health data.
In addition, to help manage training needs and staff turnover issues, Netsmart offers Netsmart University. Netsmart University is powered by Continued Learning, a comprehensive suite of learning tools, including online classes, in-person classes and customized Web portals to manage all corporate training to support accreditation efforts, gain staff CEUs and assist in training new employees. A sample of the public health courses available include Women Infants and Children’s Health, Epidemiology, Environmental Health, Bioterrorism and Pandemic.
Netsmart has a deep understanding of these and other issues faced by public health organizations.
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