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UTAH
Focus Area:
Data Dissemination
Contact:
Lois M. Haggard
Director
Office of Public Health Assessment
Utah Department of Health
Box 142101
Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2101
phone: (801) 538-9455
fax: (801) 538-9346
loishaggard@utah.gov
The Utah Department of Health has an Internet-based data dissemination system Indicator-Based Information System for Public Health (IBIS-PH). The system promotes evidence-based decision-making by affording access to public health data and information to guide health policy decisions and evaluate efforts to ensure the health of Utahans. IBIS-PH provides the following functions:
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Indicator Reporting and Visualization System (IBIS-IRV): IBIS-IRV provides web reports of standardized views (including graphs and public health context) for public health indicators (e.g., Healthy People 2010 national health objectives, communicable diseases, risk factors, and Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologist Chronic Disease Indicators).
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Data Query System (IBIS-Q): IBIS-Q provides a user-friendly Internet interface allowing custom queries of public health data sets (e.g., death, birth, hospital, population, and survey data).
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Indicator Development and Administration Interface (IBIS-Admin): IBIS-Admin allows subject-matter experts to publish indicators on the IBIS system.
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Published Reports: IBIS-PH also provides access to published reports (pdf files online), and information on public health (e.g.,the role of government in public health practice and the local public health system).
Primary responsibility for the progress of IBIS rests in the Office of Public Health Assessment, (Lois M. Haggard, Director).
Web site enhancements enabled by the Assessment Initiative project funding
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New web site look and feel: The IBIS-PH homepage and all associated pages have been redesigned with a new functionality. The new web site includes more pull-down menus, provides printer-friendly versions of all pages, and looks more professional.
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New web technology: The IBIS indicator reports been rewritten using standard XML language. XML has many benefits, including more control over functionality Internet reports and graphs, better security for data, more flexibility for integration with other components of the system, cheaper and easier maintenance and transfer to other interested states, and better performance for the user. The new IBIS-PH server is operational with this new technology.
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Updated indicator profile reports: The IBIS system now includes 114 published indicator reports, including all 85 of the Utah Department of Health's priority Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) health objectives, using the new XML technology. Every indicator report published on the Internet-based system includes contextual information to assist the end-user in understanding the public health implications of the data. Indicator reports include at least one data graph, a clear definition of the measure, reference to a HP2010 objective (where relevant), and other contextual information, including why the health condition is important and what is being done to improve the health status or health-care system with respect to the indicator. It also provides links to other relevant indicators on the Internet system, and phone numbers and Internet links for services to the public and additional information.
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Query system integration: The IBIS query system is being reworked to better match the functionality of the new IBIS-PH homepage, to make it easier and faster for users to construct their queries, to provide better integration between the indicator reports and the query modules, to provide better user feedback at each step of the query-construction process, and to generally incorporate more features suggested by CDC on their Model Prototype data query web site. Integration of the query system into the new IBIS Internet technology will also provide easier production and maintenance of query system modules, and require standardization of processes across modules. This standardization serves two additional purposes, 1) makes documentation of the application possible; and 2) allows users to construct a graphical user interfaces or similar system for constructing new query system modules.
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