Off the Cuff September 23, 2019

 

Off the Cuff: CVH Clinical and Community Connections for State & Local Public Health Departments
Information from state and national partners
Facilitated by the Cardiovascular Health Network of NACDD
Issue 164, September 23, 2019
Contact us at healthsystems@chronicdisease.org

 

News and Resources from CDC, NACDD, and National Partners

From NACDD and CDC
New Request for Applications for GIS Training for State Health Departments

NACDD, in partnership with CDC and the Children’s Environmental Health Initiative at Rice University, is pleased to release the Request for Applications for the 2019-2020 Geographic Information Systems (GIS) State Training for the Surveillance of Heart Disease, Stroke, and Other Chronic Diseases. This GIS training is for staff working with State Health Department chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs.

Important Dates

  • RFA Question and Answer Sessions: Monday, September 23 at 2:00 p.m. ET and Wednesday, September 25 at 2:00 p.m. ET
  • Application Due Date: October 28, 2019
  • Notice of Award: November 21, 2019 

A list of eligible state health departments, dates for required meetings and trainings, and a Frequently Asked Questions document are posted on the NACDD GIS webpage.  


From the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Opportunity for healthcare institutions to participate in TAKEheart: an initiative to increase use of cardiac rehabilitation
Please share this information with your healthcare partners.

TAKEheart is an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) initiative that provides free support to hospitals and health systems in implementing automatic cardiac rehabilitation referrals with care coordination. Institutions committed to improving the quality of their cardiac care and reducing readmissions are encouraged to apply. Application deadline is October 15. Click here to learn more or to apply to be part of TAKEheart.  


From NACDD, Public Health Informatics Institute and CDC
Opportunity to Join MENDS (Multi-state EHR-based Network for Disease Surveillance)
EHR-based Surveillance Learning Community
The MENDS/EHR-based Surveillance Learning Community will be co-led by NACDD and the Public Health Informatics Institute. It is a series of 60-minute, monthly calls and is intended for state and local public health departments and their potential data partners including clinical organizations and health information exchanges. The first call is Tuesday, October 22, from 3-4:00 p.m. ET.  The content and discussion of these calls will include both MENDS-specific topics as well as more foundational surveillance and data analytics topics.
 
Who should participate?
The MENDS/EHR-based Surveillance Learning Community is intended for program and epidemiology staff in your chronic disease unit, as well as department-level epidemiologists and informaticists. Health system data partners might benefit from participating on certain calls.

Format of the MENDS/EHR-based Surveillance Learning Community
The MENDS/EHR-based Surveillance Learning Community calls will last 60 minutes. The first portion of the calls will be educational and focused on related topics critical to an EHR-based surveillance program design and implementation; the second portion will be a facilitated discussion and open Q&A. A full schedule of topics will be available following the October call. The agenda, slides and recording of the session will be posted on the NACDD MENDS website following the calls. 

When are the calls and what is the time commitment?
After the Tuesday, October 22 call, the calls will be on the 3rd Tuesday of every month.  We encourage you to identify a core team of chronic disease program, surveillance and informatics staff to regularly participate in the calls, and to ensure that at least one member of your team is on each call. The topics and agenda for each month’s call will be posted in Off the Cuff prior to each call.   

Sign up to join this MENDS/EHR-based Surveillance Learning Community. Click here for more information about MENDS. Please share this link w

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