A Novel Electronic Record System for Documentation and Efficient Workflow for Community Health Workers: Development and Usability Study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic added to the decades of evidence that public health institutions are routinely stretched beyond their capacity. Community health workers (CHWs) can be a crucial extension of public health resources to address health inequities, but systems to document CHW efforts are often fragmented and prone to unneeded redundancy, errors, and inefficiency.

Objective: We sought to develop a more efficient data collection system for recording the wide range of community-based efforts performed by CHWs.

Development and evaluation of a COVID tracking system to support provision of social service in Wyandotte County, Kansas.

Background: In addition to the state-mandated case investigation and contact tracing, the Unified Government Public Health Department of Wyandotte County, Kansas implemented social support services for COVID-19 cases and contacts; however, did not have the systems in place to document the provision of these services. Our team worked with the health department to develop and implement the COVID Tracking System (CTS), an eHealth system that linked multiple involved teams. Here, we describe the development and evaluation of the CTS.

Piloting a systems level intervention to improve cervical cancer screening, treatment and follow up in Kenya.

Although preventable, Cervical Cancer (CC) is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women in Sub-Saharan Africa with the highest incidence in East Africa. Kenyan guidelines recommend an immediate screen and treat approach using either Pap smear or visual screening methods. However, system (e.