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Enhancing chronic disease surveillance with clinical data courses and modules.
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Training Courses
This course curriculum is intended to help health departments and other users of clinical data identify the fundamentals of clinical data capture and electronic health record (EHR) systems and identify strengths and limitations of using clinical data for public health surveillance.
Each of the three courses includes various self-paced training modules:
Understanding Clinical Data: A Data User Perspective
Modules:
- Origins and Nature of Clinical Data
- Management of Clinical Data by Healthcare Organizations
- Clinical Data Aggregation: Bringing Data Together to Advance Health
- Governance: Building and Sustaining Trust in an Information Partnership
Using Clinical Data: Transformation into Chronic Disease Surveillance Information
Modules:
- Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Clinical Data for Public Health Surveillance
- Getting Beyond the Limitations—Optimizing Clinical Data for Chronic Disease Surveillance
Introduction to Multi-State EHR-Based Network for Disease Surveillance (MENDS)
Modules:
- MENDS: A Novel Approach to Chronic Disease Surveillance
- Using RiskScape: A Powerful Tool for Visualizing Chronic Disease Prevalence
Upon completing the course curriculum, learners will be able to:
- Describe the origin of clinical data and foundational concepts of data management relevant to public health applications.
- Summarize how clinical data can be transformed for use in public health surveillance, and to inform development and evaluation of interventions and policies.
- Explain the purpose of the MENDS pilot project and network, including the basic functionality of MENDS software tools.
Each training module contains an overview of the topic, short lecture video, knowledge check questions, and supplemental resources. The content is intended to be introductory and foundational, and you do not need to have any previous experience working with clinical data. You may skip any module you believe is too basic and complete modules in any order you prefer.
The Enhancing Chronic Disease Surveillance with Clinical Data course curriculum was developed by the National Association of Chronic Disease Directors in partnership with the Public Health Informatics Institute, a program of the Task Force for Global Health.