Vitalnet Health Data - Overview

The Vitalnet solution provides:

Health data sets and other large data sets contain a wealth of information. Agencies invest large amounts of time and money in collecting data. Vitalnet leverages and makes best use of valuable data.

Vitalnet analyzes large, complex data bases:

Other systems are available as needed: benefits enrollment, birth defects, census, emergency room, food stamps, HIV / AIDS, health manpower, immunizations, infant death, lead screening, linked birth / death, Medicaid, Medicare, newborn screening, outpatient care, poverty, PRAMS, reportable diseases, TANF, trauma registry, unemployment, YRBS, and WIC.

Vitalnet serves a broad range of users, including:

Vitalnet serves a wide variety of purposes, including:

VitalPro platforms meet the needs of expert users:

• Allows users to routinely carry out analyses not feasible before.
• Age groupings may be easily customized to whatever is needed.
• Customized geographic "sets" may be compared with each other.
• Customized cause of death "sets" may be compared with each other.
• The entire ICD system is included.
• Exploratory data analysis is easy, since Vitalnet is so fast.

VitalWeb platforms allow efficient data analysis from any web browser:

• VitalWeb Standard has a main page with most selections.
  - Uses helper pages for certain parameters.
  - Separate output window displays all output.

• VitalWeb Wizard runs in a single web page.
  - Step-by-Step Mode has sequence for making a table or map.
  - Jump-to-Page Mode lets user jump to any page in sequence.

An immediately useful data warehouse solution - EHDP guarantees successful operation and data importing. Many organizations spend years developing data warehouse software. Often with disappointing results. We deliver guaranteed better performance. Now.

Simplified contracting and lower costs - The costs for complex software systems can be high. Sometimes very high. There are typically high direct and indirect development costs, and hassles and headaches for all involved. Ongoing maintenance costs can also be high. Vitalnet is a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) data warehouse solution, so the initial and ongoing costs are lower and predictable. Vitalnet is licensed on an annual flat-rate basis to an agency, business, or individual.

A comprehensive service - Customization, setup, data importing, and other services needed for project success are included with each license. We will make needed changes and modifications to meet your needs, usually at no extra cost.

Guaranteed project success - A large proportion of software development projects fail to meet user needs. Even if successful, most software becomes obsolete in a few years with advances in technology. In contrast, Vitalnet software is guaranteed to meet your needs. And Vitalnet has a proven track record for adapting to new technologies and requirements.

Standards-Based - Vitalnet is designed for compatibility with:

• CDC User Interface Style Guide
• CDC Assessment Initiative recommendations
• CDC NEDSS
• Section 508
• Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• Other standards - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, CGI

Convenient access:

• Local access (runs directly on computer):
  - VitalPro for DOS
  - VitalPro for Unix
  - VitalPro for Windows

• Internet access (runs in web browser):
  - VitalWeb Standard
  - VitalWeb Wizard

Enjoyable to use - Little training is required, even for inexperienced users. Uniform data definitions and conventions across interfaces. Program prevents selection of incompatible parameters. On-line help and advice.

• VitalPro for DOS - Character-oriented interface. Very flexible. Tables only.
• VitalPro for Unix - Character-oriented interface. Very flexible. Tables only.
• VitalPro for Windows - Graphical user interface. Maximum flexibility.
• VitalWeb Standard - Has main selection page, and helper windows.
• VitalWeb Wizard - Leads user step-by-step to make needed output.
• Compare Vitalnet platforms

Useful output - Making useful output is the main point of Vitalnet. Output is nicely formatted and well documented, and can be used in reports and publications with little or no modification.

• Text output for direct display, printing, or editing in word processor.
• HTML output for display in browser.
• Delimited output, for importing into spreadsheet software.
• dBASE III output, for importing into almost any data display software.
• Professionally formatted thematic maps.
• Pie charts, line plots, and bar charts.

Wide variety of statistics, including:

• Birth: Adequate prenatal care percents, age-specific rates, births, birth rates, cesarean rates, low birth weight percents.
• Cancer incidence: Age-adjusted rates, age-specific rates, cases, incidence rates, standardized incidence ratios.
• Death: Age-adjusted rates, age-specific rates, crude rates, deaths, standardized mortality ratios, years of potential life lost (YPLL), YPLL rates.
• Hospital discharge: Charges, mean charges, median charges, length of stay, mean length of stay, median length of stay, discharge counts, crude discharge rates, age-specific rates, age-adjusted rates, standardized morbidity ratios.
• Population: Population, proportion in age group, median age.
• Pregnancy: Pregnancies, abortions, fetal deaths, births, crude rates, pregnancy rates, abortion rates, fetal death rates, birth rates, age-specific rates.
• All products: Confidence intervals, time-trend analysis.
• Other: EHDP will do programming to produce other needed outcome statistics. Usually no charge.

Flexible - A Vitalnet data warehouse lets you "compare anything with anything".

• You control what kind of table, chart, or map to produce.
• The program quickly responds to your requests.
• Menu-driven system for selecting and combining parameters.
• Maximum flexibility for specifying analysis parameters.
• Sorting of rows is available as needed.
• Multi-tables automatically produced, saving much time.