2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
4/15/2014 | 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Tracking Babies Along the 1-3-6 Journey – The Tennessee EHDI Information System | Orlando | 6
Tracking Babies Along the 1-3-6 Journey – The Tennessee EHDI Information System
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.
- 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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Yinmei Li
(Primary Presenter), Tennessee Department of Health, yinmei.li@tn.gov;
Yinmei Li is an epidemiologist with the Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) who has provided epidemiological support to the Department and its statewide partners for more than fifteen years. In the first three years with TDH she worked as the chronic disease epidemiologist. Later on she expanded her scope of work to include maternal and child health and injuries as the director of the Surveillance, Epidemiology and Evaluation section within TDH’s Division of Policy, Planning and Assessment. Dr. Li is now with the Division of Family Health and Wellness supporting the State’s Newborn Screening Follow-up Program and Children’s Special Services Program. She received an MD equivalent degree from Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University in China, and both a Master’s degree in Experimental Statistics and a PhD in Veterinary Medical Sciences from Louisiana State University.
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