NYC School Health Automated Student Health Record

Oxiris Barbot, M.D.

Medical Director

December 6, 2006

Mission

Promote the physical, emotional, social

and environmental health of the 1.2

million public school children of New

York City.

Office of School Health Structure

• Department of Health and Mental Hygiene – HPDP Division– ~800 nurses– 54 doctors– ~ 150 public health advisers

• Department of Education – Office of Youth Development and School-

Community Services – ~300 nurses– 5 Health Content Experts

Program ResponsibilitiesHealth Services

• Physician of Last Resort• Students with IEP and Section 504 Needs

– Nursing, OT, PT

• New Entrant and Other Exams• Vision and Hearing Screening• Coordinate response to communicable diseases• Immunization and other mandates compliance

ASHR Goals

• Computerize student health-related data • Easily accessible, yet secure • Improve the way health related information is

maintained, tracked and retrieved • For the purpose of providing medical services,

tracking mandated activities and providing follow up on identified health needs (case management).

• Supply real-time data to Syndromic Surveillance

Automated Student Health Record (ASHR)

• Web-based ‘EHR’ • In house ASHR 1.0

development Spring 2003

• Limited pilot September 2003

• Complete roll out of 811 sites June 2006

• Phase in ASHR 2.0 September 2006

ASHR Content• Student demographics (imported

from DOE)• PMD & specialist contact info• Immunizations (imported from DOE)• Chronic Diagnoses• Allergies• Activities Restrictions• Vision and Hearing• Medication orders• Individual health plans• New Admission Exam• Asthma profile• Walk-in (exports to Syndromic

Surveillance)• Diabetes module (under

construction)

Use Case

• State and City mandate that every newly entering student is required to submit a new admission examination (NAE aka 211S)

New Admission Exam Form (211S)

• Form may change from year to year

• Some fields are age dependant e.g. lead

• Some fields are grade dependant e.g. TST

• Some fields are historically poorly complied with e.g. complete vision screening to rule out amblyopia

CHC EHRS Reports

ReportsChild with parent visits

provider

Provider completes

211S

Parent deliver 211S

to school

Patient Record

School DB

School nurse enter 211S data

into ASHR

ASHR

211SForm

DOHMHmaintains

ASHR

211SForm

211SForm

211SForm

EHR

Current Work and Data Flow Model

CHC-IEHRS

EHR

AutomatedStudent Health

Record (ASHR)System

SchoolForms

School-IISystem

SchoolForms

School-NSystem

SchoolForms

School-ISystem

SchoolForms

CHC-IIEHRS

EHR

CHC-NEHRS

EHR

211SForm

RESForm

MUMForm

Consent

Form

Goal: Electronic Data Exchange

Benefits and Challenges:OSH

• Benefits– Improve case management and initiation of related

services– Increase number of students with mandated exams– Reduce paper that could potentially get lost– Reduce redundancy– Reallocate staff time to other school health activities

• Challenges– Identity management of outside providers– “Wet signatures”– “Communicating” with numerous EHRs– Administering system for tracking consents

Benefits and Challenges:Providers

• Benefits– Improve care coordination with schools– Improve productivity

• Time to complete forms• Redoing work already done

• Challenges– Determining which diagnoses to transmit and which

not to– “Keeping parents in the loop”– Administering consent system

Benefits and Challenges:Parents

• Benefits– Compliance with school requirements– Less missed school and work days– Improved care coordination between PCP and

school system

• Challenges– Knowing what is being transmitted to schools

Overall Goals for NAE Electronic Transmission

• Traditional school health – ensure full participation in school activities – Students are free of communicable diseases– Students’ academic needs accommodated– Delivery of direct services

• Public Health Oriented School Health– Population-based chronic disease management

(chronic disease reporting)– Resource allocation– PH equivalent of clinical decision support

Benefits of Bi-directionality: Parents

• Minimize unnecessary go-between activities

• Updates on child’s status – e.g. # of visits to medical room

• Reports on when and what type of information was transmitted

Benefits of Bi-directionality:Provider

• List of patients and schools they attend with nurse contact info– Medication services– Related services – e.g. PT/OT/ST– Accommodations – e.g. barrier-free schools

• Updates on patient status – e.g. # of visits to medical room

• Profile as compared to other providers

Benefits of Bi-directionality:OSH

• Improve communications with providers

• Expand from NAE to “doctor’s notes”

Data transfer to Syndromic Surveillance

• Began March 1, 2005• Data fields transferred

– Student Age - Walk-In Time In– ATS School DBN - Grade Level– Official Class - Zip– Complaint Description - Comments– Record Last Update

• Process – Nightly Data transfer Service (DTS) of de-identified

student walk-in data by school

Syndromic Surveillance Potential

• Syndromes tracked– Allergy - AsthmaResp– Diarrhea - FeverFlu– Injury - Neuro– Rash - Vomiting

• Once a week email now; daily once system fully functional

• Potential for tracking to citywide, but too early to determine overall utility

Flu signals correspond to city-wide signals