NC CATCH: Advancing Public Health Analytics

Authors

  • James Studnicki College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • John W Fisher College of Health and Human Services, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
  • Christopher Eichelberger College of Computing and Informatics, Software Solutions Laboratory, Charlotte, NC
  • Colleen Bridger Gaston County Health Department, Gastonia, NC
  • Kim Angelon-Gaetz North Carolina Office of Healthy Carolinians/ Health Education, Raleigh, NC
  • Debi Nelson North Carolina Office of Healthy Carolinians/ Health Education, Raleigh, NC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v2i3.3348

Abstract

The North Carolina Comprehensive Assessment for Tracking Community Health (NC CATCH) is a Web-based analytical system deployed to local public health units and their community partners. The system has the following characteristics: flexible, powerful online analytic processing (OLAP) interface; multiple sources of multidimensional, event-level data fully conformed to common definitions in a data warehouse structure; enabled utilization of available decision support software tools; analytic capabilities distributed and optimized locally with centralized technical infrastructure; two levels of access differentiated by the user (anonymous versus registered) and by the analytical flexibility (Community Profile versus Design Phase); and, an emphasis on user training and feedback. The ability of local public health units to engage in outcomes-based performance measurement will be influenced by continuing access to event-level data, developments in evidence-based practice for improving population health, and the application of information technology-based analytic tools and methods.

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Published

2010-12-23

How to Cite

Studnicki, J., Fisher, J. W., Eichelberger, C., Bridger, C., Angelon-Gaetz, K., & Nelson, D. (2010). NC CATCH: Advancing Public Health Analytics. Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.5210/ojphi.v2i3.3348

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