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Government Public Health and Human Services
Public health and human services operations, strategic and information technology consulting is the core mission of our firm. We specialize in evaluating and assessing public health and human services agencies at the State and County levels, analyzing information management capabilities, and recommending strategies for improvements based upon Best Practices and national guidelines.
Our team of public health, human services and IT professionals possesses over 100 years of accumulated experience working on public health IT projects
DigitalCare, Inc. practices on a national basis. Our client base includes State Departments of Health, State Departments of Human Services, State Medicaid programs, County departments of health and human services, Emergency Medical Services providers, corrections facilities, community health providers, and integrated health systems.
Some of the Public Health organizations for which we have delivered highly successful IT assessment and recommendations projects include:
- State of Oregon Department of Human Services
- State of New Mexico Department of Health
- State of Colorado – Clinical Services Division - Department of Corrections
- State of Colorado Medicaid Fiscal Agent (Colorado Access)
- A Federal Government Empowerment Zone
- Many county governments, including County health departments
Some of the roles DigitalCare has played in the past have included assisting State and County Departments of Health and Human Services in:
- Enterprise-wide assessments and evaluations of programs, staffing and infrastructure, including analysis of weaknesses and opportunities for better utilization of existing resources
- Devising strategies to improve collaboration levels and methods with other government agencies, hospitals, medical professionals, first responders and other partners
- Interviewing diverse public health and health care provider stakeholders and IT users to uncover needs, weaknesses and areas for improvement
- Devising strategies and planning implementation for rapid dissemination of information to health professionals, first responders, local and county government officials, state government officials, federal government officials and the public
- Identifying and Evaluating technology tools, databases and applications across large enterprises and multiple locations statewide
- Evaluating and analyzing network security, and recommending improvements to better protect confidential and valuable information
- Exploring and recommending new technology and communications systems that improve efficiency, effectiveness and timeliness of data collection and analysis
- Recommending solutions to share epidemiological databases and information
- Strategies to coordinate detection, surveillance, epidemiology and disease investigation activities
- Strategies to communicate information on diagnosis, treatment, prophylaxis and infection control issues to necessary populations
Our work and experience covers the entire Public Health Chain of Responsibility, including:
- Federal Government Response, Surveillance and Reporting Procedures
- State Response, Surveillance and Reporting Procedures:
o Health Departments
o Human Services Departments
o Office of Emergency Management Departments
- County, Municipal and First Responder Communication and Coordination Requirements:
o Local and County Health Departments
o Emergency Management Agencies
o Law Enforcement
o Health Care Providers
o Search&Rescue, EMS and HAZMAT
o Volunteers
o Special Populations