1. Cameron County
Department of Health
and Human Services:
Access to Data
BY: LOAN HUYNH, VERA WELLS, AND AKOSUA BOAKYE

2. Overview
•Collaboration opportunity within the community
• Recommended data resources:
PHAs-Specialized registry
•Recommended tools:
Data display model – Tableau, Community Needs Index (CNI)
•Examples of reports
CNI, ESRI, Tableau

3. Collaboration

4. Current Wellcentive Architecture

5. Data Resources

6. Potential Data Sources
• Primary
Wellcentive, RGVHIE, Colonias, ESRI, Specialized registry
• Secondary
CDC, Truven Health Analytics, Census, Centraforce

7. Specialized Registry
•Michigan Department of Community Health
•Birth Defect Registry – MU 2
•Grant were awarded for programs including:
•Preconception health education program - Folic Acid Outreach and Multivitamin
Distribution in Selected Michigan Counties
•Teens with Diabetes Mellitus: Promoting Preconception Care to Prevent Adverse
Pregnancy Outcome
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/BirthDefects/BirthDefectsAnnualReport2011.pdf

8. Tools

9. Community Needs Index
•GIS-based application that served as a proxy to identify severity of
health disparities within the community
•Dignity Health (formerly known Catholic Healthcare West) and
Thompson Reuters (formerly known Solucient) in California
•CCDHHS collaboration with RGVHIE as the host

10. Scoring Comparison between
communities

11. Correlation of Readmission Rates for
Preventable Hospitalization

12. CNI Map
• Community need by counties
• Need for community health clinic
• Partnering community centers invest
$300,000 for a community clinic at a
local school
• Providing free health screenings and
immunizations
• 43% of households are headed by
single parents living in poverty
http://www.dignityhealth.org/stellent/groups/public/@xinternet_con_sys/documents/webcontent/21
2782.pdf

13. Examples

14. CNI by Zip code in Cameron County
http://cni.chw-interactive.org/printout-2015.asp

15. Dignity Health CNI Map of Cameron
County
http://cni.chw-interactive.org/printout-2015.asp
Online interactive application of the
Community needs index

16. Suggested Wellcentive + CCDHHS
Architecture

17. Tableau
http://www.tableau.com/lousiana-state-university-data-visualization
Louisiana Breast and Cervical Health Program

18. ESRI Data on GIS Map
Sub-Departments:
Environmental Health 
Map On-site Sewage
Lines
Social Services 
Location of Clinics and
Family Planning Centers
http://giswww.westchestergov.com/wcgis/strategicPlan_15-17.pdf