The Role of Data in this Project 

The Healing Communities Study (HCS) is examining how a data-driven collaborative planning process is used to address opioid-related overdose in communities such as ours. A key part of the project is examining local data to inform the choices of evidence-based strategies to implement, and where to allocate funds and resources. Data will also be used to monitor, and evaluate the chosen interventions in the community. Data plays a vital role and provides a backbone for each phase of the Healing Cortland project. 

Local Data

The County Implementation Team has been collecting local data to inform decision-making and guide the project. Some of the data that are being collected currently include:

• # of fatal overdoses in Cortland County

  • type of drug, date of death, gender, and ethnicity

• # of non-fatal overdoses in the City of Cortland

  • Date, location, gender, and race demographics of non-fatal overdoes

• # of naloxone kits distributed in Cortland County

• # of naloxone administrations in Cortland County

Data available through Columbia & the HCS

You can access many data resources through Columbia's HEALing Communities Study (HCS) Portal (info on accessing that portal is on this page). There you can find tools and resources such as:

• Data Dashboards 

  • These include data visualizations on naloxone distribution and administration, treatment services, and more. 

• Data Reports

  • These include reports on: 

    • Non-fatal opioid overdoses

    • EMS events with opioid poisionings and naloxone administrations

    • naloxone distribution

    • Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) data including the rate of high risk prescribing, new opioid prescriptions, residents receieving bubrinorphine monthly rate of waivered prescribers, etc.

    • ESSSR ( Electronic Syndromic Surveillance System) data which includes Opioid-related ED visits 

    • Vital Records data including the monthly count/rate of opioid overdose deaths according to death certificates. Annual overdose deaths are also broken down by age, race, and sex in the "Stratification" report. Lastly, overdose death rates are broken down by substance from 2017-2021.

  • These data reports also compare Cortland County to other Wave 2 communities, the average of all rural communiteis in Wave 2, and the urban communities in wave 2. 

  • You can access these reports under the Data Warehouse heading under Coalition Workspace.

• Agent-Based Modeling tool

  • This tool predicts and forecasts as well as models potential points of intervention and prevention, and assesses the risks and benefits of different intervention strategies. 

  • You can access Cortland's specific agent-based model, by clicking on Cortland agent-based modeling under the agent-based modeling tab on the portal.

NYS Opioid-related Data and Dashboard

 The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Opioid Prevention Program provides county-level public-facing data (found here) that anyone can access including:

• Annual NYS Opioid Summary Reports (These provide an overview of opioid-related mortality and morbidity across NYS)

• New York State County Opioid Quarterly Reports (These provide opioid overdose information (deaths, emergency department (ED) visits, and hospitalizations) by county. 

• New York State Opioid Dashboard (This is an interactive visual presentation of indicators tracking opioid data at state and county levels. It monitors fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses, opioid prescribing, opioid use disorder treatment, and the overall opioid overdose burden)

CACTC Data Reports