2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
3/18/2024 | 1:55 PM - 2:20 PM | Improving Diagnostic Audiology Reporting Using an Intelligent Document Processing Solution | Mineral Hall F/G
Improving Diagnostic Audiology Reporting Using an Intelligent Document Processing Solution
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs rely on reporting from audiology providers to track and ensure that infants who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are enrolled in intervention services. However, instances of under-reporting of diagnostic audiology reports are common in many states and territories since pediatric audiologists must manually enter their reports to state public EHDI programs via EHDI information systems (EHDI-IS). This effort is often time consuming and may cause delays in connecting children with care.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EHDI program, the Public Health Informatics Institute, Quantiphi, Amazon Web Services, three Oregon audiologists, and the Oregon EHDI Program partnered on a proof-of-concept (POC) to reduce the burden of reporting for audiologists through automating the data submission process to the EHDI-IS. The solution leverages QDox, Quantiphi’s in-house Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) Solution, capable of classifying and extracting information from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents. The collaborative team is developing an application to receive, process, and extract key data points from pediatric audiology diagnostic reports.
This presentation will cover the current challenges facing audiologists and state EHDI programs and review how the IDP process flow addresses these challenges. This presentation will also include a demonstration of the solution with highlights on how the solution can easily be scaled to other states. Ultimately, the POC seeks to reduce the burden of reporting for the audiologists and allow EHDI programs to receive critical surveillance data while ensuring all infants who are D/HH receive timely intervention services.
- The participant will be able to identify an intelligent document processing solution and how it can be used to address challenges facing audiologists reporting results to their jurisdictional EHDI program.
- The participant will learn about a potential solution to reduce loss to documentation at time of diagnosis and how it will reduce provider reporting burden.
- The participant will improve their understanding of surveillance data for EHDI programs.
Presentation:
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Presenters/Authors
Lura Daussat
(Primary Presenter,Author), Public Health Informatics Institute , ldaussat@taskforce.org;
Lura Daussat serves as the director of the practice support business unit; before moving into this role, she was a senior informatics analyst for PHII. While at PHII she has worked on projects related to child and adolescent mental health and audiology reporting. Previously, Lura spent 12 years at OZ Systems, where she partnered with state public health programs that included newborn hearing screening. In addition, Lura authored two implementation guides for HL7 on exchanging data from devices to public health for newborn hearing screening and critical congenital heart disease.
Lura received her Master of Public Health from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine after completing three years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana. Her undergraduate degree is a BS in biology from the University of North Texas.
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Nature: Disclosure Statement: This project was supported by cooperative agreement number U38OT000316, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or Department of Health and Human Services.
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Dawn Heisey-Grove
(Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Amazon Web Services, State and Local Government, dawnhg@amazon.com;
Dr. Dawn Heisey-Grove helps federal public health agencies Think Big with Amazon Web Services. She’s spent her career finding new ways to use existing or new data to modernize public health surveillance and research. Before AWS, Dawn led a team at MITRE that developed a novel open-source solution that supports chronic disease surveillance through the creation of longitudinally-linked data sets sourced from clinical and non-clinical data across the community. While at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), she partnered with CDC to explore how electronic clinical quality measures could be used to generate national population-level estimates of hypertension. She also published national statistics on health IT adoption and use with a focus on rural health IT and public health data exchange. Dawn started her career as an infectious disease epidemiologist and public health informatician at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she was a leader in identifying new technological solutions to automate data capture, securely share data with clinical and local public health partners, and conduct analytics for infectious disease surveillance. Dawn has published over 2 dozen articles in leading public health, health policy, and health informatics journals. She has a B.S. in Microbiology from University of Maryland—College Park, a MPH in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from Boston University, and a PhD in Health Outcomes Research from Virginia Commonwealth University.
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Kelly Dundon
(Co-Presenter,Author,Co-Author), Gentech Associates, kdundon@gentechassociates.com;
Kelly Dundon is a contractor with the CDC EHDI program. Prior to the CDC, Kelly was the state EHDI Coordinator for Georgia and was with the Georgia Department of Public Health for over 6 years. Kelly holds her Doctorate in Audiology and Masters in Public Health. Additionally, she is a board member of Georgia’s Hands & Voices Chapter and works as a pediatric audiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Tony Winters
(Co-Author), Public Health Informatics Institute, twinters@taskforce.org;
Tony Winters serves as a senior informatics analyst for PHII. Prior to joining PHII, he was a fellow in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program. He worked in Allentown, Penn., with the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s (LVHN) Pool Center for Health Analytics, LVHN’s Leonard Parker Pool Institute for Health and the Allentown Health Bureau. Tony helped these organizations develop cross-sector partnerships and infrastructure to create a new analytical platform to improve the health of the local community. The platform focused on analyzing social determinants of health (SDOH) data and integrating it with healthcare data.
Tony has also worked with CDC as an ORISE Fellow and contractor under the National Notifiable Disease Surveillance System Modernization Initiative where, as part of an interdisciplinary team, he guided CDC disease programs in updating their mechanisms for case notification to use HL7 messaging.
Tony holds a doctorate in public health leadership from Georgia Southern University. He also holds a Master of Science in Public Health in applied epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he earned his undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Science in chemistry.
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Hayleigh McDavid
(Co-Author), Public Health Informatics Institute , hmcdavid@taskforce.org ;
Hayleigh McCall McDavid is a project manager at PHII, supporting the Practice Support Unit. She brings experience from the nonprofit, federal and private sectors in a variety of public health topics. Of note, she served as primary lead on multiple CDC cooperative agreement-funded projects at the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE), which focused on syndromic surveillance, disaster epidemiology, environmental health, climate and health and life expectancy. In this role, she provided strategic direction of the syndromic surveillance and environmental health portfolios, facilitation of active communities of practice, project management of funded activities, coordination and implementation of data policy projects and discussions and planning and hosting of multiple national and regional meetings and workshops. Her other work roles have supported include solution delivery of state and local disease surveillance systems solutions, federal environmental emergency preparedness and syndromic surveillance health communications.
Hayleigh holds a Masters of Public Health in Epidemiology as well as a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology and Psychology from the University of Georgia.
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Eric Cahill
(Co-Author), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, ECahill@cdc.gov;
Eric Cahill, MS has been with the CDC EHDI Team since 2009. As a Health Scientist, Eric provides technical assistance to state EHDI programs and investigates public health related issues for the team. Before coming to CDC, Eric served in the EHDI program for the state of Kentucky. He originally trained as a clinical audiologist and has worked at Temple University Hospital, Temple University Children’s Medical Center and Children’s Hospital Boston.
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Caitlin Loretan
(Co-Author), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cloretan@cdc.gov;
Caitlin Loretan, MPH recently joined the CDC EHDI Team. Caitlin is a Health/Data Scientist with a background in epidemiology. As a member of the CDC EHDI Team, Caitlin is working on projects related to advancing data modernization efforts. Prior to joining the CDC EHDI Team, Caitlin worked as an Epidemiologist in the Office on Smoking and Health (CDC), where she focused her time on the National Youth Tobacco Survey and tobacco surveillance research.
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Brian Herndon
(Co-Author), Quantiphi, Inc. , brian.herndon@quantiphi.com;
Brian is Quantiphi’s leader for all public sector and education sales and operational efforts. Brian is highly skilled at building lasting and productive key client relationships. Brian orchestrated complex next generation solutions & services in AI/ML and Data & Analytics. Brian gathered understanding of custom solutions of different kinds of clients spread across countless industries in all verticals e.g. Computer Vision, Internet of Things (IoT), natural language processing(NLP) and other analytics techniques.
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