IBIS-Admin

New Mexico’s Web-based, Public Health Indicator, Content Management System

Outline

What? (IBIS-PH)Why? (Public Health Assessment)Who? (IBIS Indicator Roles)How? (IBIS Admin site)Related Issues

WHAT?

Public site - http://ibis.health.state.nm.us

Assessment Function of Public Health

One of the core functions in public health, assessment is the systematic collection, assembly, analysis, and dissemination of information about the health of a community.

Institute of Medicine (1988) The Future of Public Health

Assessment includes:Determining the health needs of the community by establishing a systematic process that periodically provides pertinent health information.Investigating adverse health events and health hazards by conducting timely investigations that identify the magnitude of health problems, including their duration, trends, location, and at-risk populations.Analyzing the determinants of identified health problems to determine the reasons why certain populations are at risk for adverse health outcomes.

WHY?

Importance of Assessment

Without accurate information on the health status of a community and a clear understanding of the available resources, we cannot make informed decisions about which areas should have priority, which policies might be effective, or which interventions might be possible to implement.

Why “Indicator-Based?”

GAO found that comprehensive key indicator systems had positive effects in four areas:

enhanced collaboration to address public issues, tools to encourage progress, informed decision making and improved research, increased public knowledge about key issues

Government Accountability Office (GAO). Informing Our Nation. Improving how to understand the USA’s position and Progress. November 2004. Accessed 1/5/2007 online at http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d051.pdf.

IBIS-PH

IBIS-PH was developed in the Utah Department of Health.We use IBIS Indicators to:

publish data for priority health objectivespromote better understanding of public health issuesdisseminate data and information on public health topics

WHO?

IBIS Indicator Roles

IBIS Admin TeamIndicator AuthorsIndicator Editors

IBIS Admin Team (DOH-IBIS Indicator Support Team)

Maintain infrastructureSet up new indicators and new graphsProvide training and technical assistance to indicator authors and editorsAllow system access to indicator authors and editors assisting in updating indicator informationPublish completed indicators to the public site

IBIS Indicator Authors

Make decisions about measure inclusion, definitions, data display and presentation, Provide public health context, enter and update indicator Web contentAssign indicator editorsProvide feedback on training and on the IBIS Admin website and Approve indicators for publishing

IBIS Indicator Editors

Assist the authors in maintaining the Web content for their indicator(s)

IBIS Indicator Roles

In General:Authors make decisionsEditors and IBISAdminTeam implement them

HOW?

IBIS-Admin site - http://dohnocm238:8080/DataAdmin

IBIS Architecture

Business Logic Tier - Application ServerDedicated IBIS resource.

Processes requests from Internet according to relevant business logic, stores IBIS View System (Web page content for IBIS indicators, XML for query system interface pages), transmits HTML to Web server.

HTTP Response (HTML)

HTTP Request

(URL)

Data Tier – SAS, SQL ServerShared UDOH resource.

Processes requests from Application server.

Stores IBIS-Q CGI application and SAS datasets.

Stores IBIS-Admin application and Admin database.

HTTP Response (HTML, XML)

HTTP Request

(URL)Internet

NM-IBIS System Architecture

IBIS-View IBIS-Admin IBIS-Q (query)

How Are We Doing?

Utah Versus U.S.

What Is Being Done?

Other Program Information

Definition*

Numerator*

Denominator*

Data Interpretation IssuesWhy Is This Important?*

HP 2010 Objectives*

Other Objectives

IBISAdmin Indicator Main Page

IBISAdmin Important Facts

Page

IBISAdmin HP2010

Objectives Page

Admin DB, Relational DB Entities (Tables)

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In d ica tor

Indicator View Values

Indicator Attributes (Table Fields)

Indicator View Attributes (Fields)

Indicator View Value Attributes (Fields)

Vocabulary

An indicator “View” is a graphSeries and Category

Category: Values along the X-axisSeries: If there is more than one datapoint for a category, there is more than one series. e.g., male and female. The series labels are identified in the legend.

Vocabulary

Data can be text. Text can be data. Anything in the IBISAdmin database is considered “data.” To be clear, we try to use the word “content” to refer broadly to your indicator Web page content, but we may slip up and call it data. Just so you know.

Vocabulary

Name vs. Title – Title is always the label that is shown to the end user, name is the unique identifier in the DB.Category vs. SeriesIndicator vs. Indicator View (Graph)

Illegal characters

IBIS uses only pure text characters. You may have problems (e.g., can’t preview) if you copy/paste from MSWord or other programs.Known issues:

“directional quotation marks”Emdash – the two dashes put togetherSome end of line hidden characters

2009 Legislative Session

Legislators will be notified re: NM-IBIS Website and indicators.Shoot for all indicators updated by January 1st.

As Always:

Contact DOH-IBIS Indicator Support Team if you have questions or need technical assistance.Please update your indicators as soon as new data become available. Email DOH-IBIS Indicator Support Team when you have completed your changes and your indicator needs to be republished.

Next Steps…

1. Contact the IBIS Indicator Support Team to tell us your indicator title and what graphs you will be publishing.

2. Gay and Lois will create your DB records.

3. You use the IBIS-Admin site to create your Web page content.

4. Let us know when you’re ready to publish.

Next Steps…

Email address for NM-IBIS Indicator Support Team:DOH-IBIS Indicator Support Team@state.nm.us(Type in ‘DOH-IBIS’ in address book.)

Email us to:Set up a new indicatorTechnical assistancePublish your indicator

Next Steps…

IBIS-Admin Website:

http://dohnocm238:8080/DataAdmin

And:

Let us know how we can improve the site.Let us know if your group would like a hands-on training session.Thank you for using IBIS Admin to maintain your indicator page content!!

Lois M. Haggard, PhDlois.haggard@state.nm.us505-827-5274

Gay Romerogay.romero@state.nm.us505-476-3566