Assessment and Evaluation of Data and Information Technology Systems

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CDC’s Public Health Data Modernization Assessment User Guide

The Public Health Data Modernization Assessment User Guide will assist your jurisdiction as you complete the public health data modernization assessment data collection and reporting process. This guide provides explanations, resources, and example templates to walk you through each step of the process:

  1. Obtain support from jurisdiction leadership and engaging stakeholders.
  2. Develop a summary report of your assessment findings.
  3. Share and confirm assessment results with stakeholders.
  4. Use the results to inform your jurisdiction’s data modernization roadmap.

The assessment worksheet is a template that jurisdictions can complete that will provide a comprehensive understanding of capabilities and capacity related to data modernization. The Public Health Data Modernization Assessment Report Template is designed to help you summarize and share data from your annual assessment.

ELC Recipient REDCap Guidance

This version of CDC’s Public Health Data Modernization Assessment User Guide provides detailed guidance on collecting and entering your jurisdiction’s assessment data into REDCap.

Other Assessment Resources

Data Modernization Planning Toolkit
Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII)
A guide to build leadership and partner buy-in for data projects and to assist health departments in developing plans that prioritize data modernization activities.

Informatics-Savvy Health Department Toolkit
Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII)
An assessment that enables planning and priority setting to identify where your agency falls on a continuum of becoming informatics-savvy by measuring three core elements: informatics vision and strategy, a skilled workforce, and well-designed and effectively used information systems.

Birth Defects Surveillance Readiness Assessment
Public Health Informatics Institute (PHII)
An assessment that is designed to help congenital disabilities programs understand their current system and business processes, agency policies, available resources, existing partnerships, and IT considerations to determine readiness for automated electronic data exchange using health information standards.

Public Health Systems Inventory Tool
CDC
A tool to guide jurisdictions through documenting their internal IT systems and completing a data modernization assessment. The Public Health Systems Inventory Tool User Guide is available to assist with completing the inventory tool.