Debashish Mittra’s scientific contributions

Public Health (PH) applications in County of Los Angeles (LAC), Department of PH have been developed to meet individual PH program's goals. This resulted in lack of county-wide PH data integration, efficiency, and usefulness. LAC encouraged the development of web-based applications utilizing standards-based PH Information Network interoperable service-oriented architecture (SOA). The goal was to stop the evolution of fragmented health data systems which place limitations on the PH mission of safeguarding and improving the health of the community as well as responding to large-scale threats to PH. PH Nursing case management is one example of LAC's initiative for promotion of web-based tools which will be utilized within this SOA. This PH architecture is capable of supporting electronic data exchange from PH partners using a HL7 integration hub. It promotes the development of management tools and applications to assist PH response and recovery activities while providing resources to support departmental integration.

Public Health (PH) applications in County of Los Angeles (LAC), Department of PH have been developed to meet individual PH program’s goals. This resulted in lack of county-wide PH data integration, efficiency, and usefulness. LAC encouraged the development of web-based applications utilizing standards-based PH Information Network interoperable service-oriented architecture (SOA). The goal was to stop the evolution of fragmented health data systems which place limitations on the PH mission of safeguarding and improving the health of the community as well as responding to large-scale threats to PH. PH Nursing case management is one example of LAC’s initiative for promotion of web-based tools which will be utilized within this SOA. This PH architecture is capable of supporting electronic data exchange from PH partners using a HL7 integration hub. It promotes the development of management tools and applications to assist PH response and recovery activities while providing resources to support departmental integration.

Public Health (PH) applications in County of Los Angeles (LAC), Department of PH have been developed to meet individual PH program's goals. This resulted in lack of county-wide PH data integration, efficiency, and usefulness. LAC encouraged the development of web-based applications utilizing standards-based PH Information Network interoperable service-oriented architecture (SOA). The goal was to stop the evolution of fragmented health data systems which place limitations on the PH mission of safeguarding and improving the health of the community as well as responding to large-scale threats to PH. PH Nursing case management is one example of LAC's initiative for promotion of web-based tools which will be utilized within this SOA. This PH architecture is capable of supporting electronic data exchange from PH partners using a HL7 integration hub. It promotes the development of management tools and applications to assist PH response and recovery activities while providing resources to support departmental integration.

Patient Clinical Management tools are necessary for doctor's and support staff to undertake patient care more efficiently. Such tools are also of interest from an administrative perspective because they help reduce costs. We have developed a mobile patient clinical management tool, CALDr + . This tool holds all the vital information for patient's under a clinician or institutional care in a mobile platform. This allows rapid access simultaneously to both patient specific clinical and administrative information within specific disease domains. CALDr

An Epidemiological Data System (EDS) has been developed for managing and monitoring SARS and other emerging infectious disease emergencies. EDS is a web-based application that has detailed case management, disease tracking and surveillance capabilities both from a clinical and administrative perspective. It has an Operational Datastore (ODS) which is a relational database consistent with the Health Level 7 version 3 (HL7 V3) Reference Information Model (RIM). Mapping of any HL7 V3 healthcare event message to the ODS is achieved using an Application Program Interface (API). This has the advantage of not exposing the contents of the ODS. The ODS supports not only HL7 V2 and 3 messaging but other standard and proprietary formats for interfacing with compatible systems. The modular design of SARS-EDS provides flexibility and ease of use for tracking and management of any infectious disease. It is a stand-alone application and this paper describes its features and our approach to integrating it into a standard-based Public Health Information Network (PHIN).