About the Project
Purpose
The Colorado Center of Excellence is being developed with a few main purposes in mind, all with the goal of protecting the public health and improving the health of newcomers:
To analyze newcomer screenings conducted across states to develop best practices for public health screening programs,
To determine the incidence, prevalence, and treatment of disease among newcomers,
To provide ongoing surveillance to determine if conditions identified overseas or at domestic screening result in appropriate follow-up care and treatment, and
To inform public health program development and health education efforts
Network partner states and jurisdictions will contribute surveillance data to the repository to create a standardized surveillance and reporting tool.
COE-Refugee-Tableau-Demo-basic.mp4Visualization Tool
All data will be de-identified and visualized in aggregate form through a tool called Tableau. We will provide network partners with login credentials and permissions to
(1) view their own data in more detail, and
(2) multi-state network data will be shared with network partners at the state level for comparing and contrasting.
There are no plans to make the dashboards publicly viewable at this time, though network partners may decide to publish their own data visualizations on their own websites, web pages, and reports.
Foundation & Infrastructure
We are building modules into an integrated surveillance infrastructure to incorporate network partners’ data.
Network states and jurisdictions will contribute newcomer screening data that will be pooled and housed within the infrastructure, which will live at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
We are developing a business intelligence (BI) environment, driven by pooled network data that is regularly updated and available to network partners and the CDC via the web.
The tool will allow end users to query their own data on an aggregate level, comparing and contrasting their data with others who have joined the surveillance network.
Healthy People 2030
This work contributes to the Healthy People 2030 focus areas of Health Care Access and Quality, Infectious Disease, Health Communication and Health Information Technology to:
Detect and treat health conditions.
Equip health care providers with tools to better communicate and build trust with patients.
Prevent the international spread of disease.
Protect the health of the U.S. population.
Provide new opportunities to connect with culturally diverse and hard to reach populations, and
Facilitate the meaningful use of health IT and exchange of health information among health care and public health professionals.
Minnesota Center of Excellence in Newcomer Health
The Minnesota Center of Excellence in Newcomer Health focuses on guideline development and clinical support tools like the CareRef application.
