| Title: |
'Tracking Babies Along the 1-3-6 Journey – The Tennessee EHDI Information System' |
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6 - Follow-up, Tracking and Data Management
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| Keyword(s): |
Newborn hearing screening, surveillance, follow-up, information system |
| Learning Objectives: |
- learn about the Tennessee EHDI Information System
- identify potential data systems that can be used for tracking hearing screening and intervention.
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Abstract: |
In 2008, Tennessee passed the newborn hearing screening law, known as Claire’s Law, to require all birthing facilities to conduct hearing screening on newborns prior to discharge. In the same year, Tennessee received funding from the CDC EHDI program to build a surveillance information system to track newborn screening, diagnosis and intervention. In the past five years, the Tennessee EHDI Information System has integrated an array of datasets from various programs including the newborn screening program, the birth statistical system (which includes all births occurring in Tennessee, demographic information from the Patient Tracking Billing Management Information System (which includes all children under the age of five who use any public health services provided by the health department), the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) data system (which has encounter and diagnosis information for WIC children) and the Immunization Registry (which has the most current primary care provider information). We will describe the datasets, the method of linkage, and some of the reports generated from the linked data records, as well as challenges and lessons learned. |
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