The SMART^® CHSTS (SMART^® Children’s Health Screening Tracking System) for the State of Maine

Business Need:

The State of Maine - Department of Health and Human Services needed a Children’s Health Screening Database, Case Management and Long-Term Follow-up Surveillance and Tracking System that would help the State to:

• Identify, match, collect, and report data related to newborn health screening on all occurrent births and those accessing services in Maine from birth through adulthood
• Respond quickly to children’s health needs and provide continuous monitoring of a child’s diagnosis, treatment, and need for referral

Solution Delivered:

NebuLogic built the SMART^® CHSTS (SMART^® Children’s Health Screening Tracking System), an innovative, user-friendly and configurable system to meet this need. The key objectives of the solution is to:

• Enable all stakeholders to provide, access and review the data using any and/all channels of communication,
• Provide real-time distribution of relevant data to appropriate stakeholders for timely assessments and action,
• Provide continuous tracking of a child’s diagnosis, treatment, and need for referral,
• Provide built-in reporting functionality to visualize 360 degree view of child’s data, and
• Incorporate data quality and data security at every level.

The solution is being implemented in a phased manner.