IHA recently introduced a new, innovative product to monitor population health trends as an industry and within our own communities. This new online mapping tool is called Indiana ChimeMaps. If you have not seen a demonstration of Indiana ChimeMaps, we encourage you to attend one of the upcoming demonstrations. In response to the request of IHA's Council on Quality and Patient Safety, two new health indicators were recently added to the program. Sepsis and opioid abuse are now included with the long list of health indicators in ChimeMaps.
 
The new product will assist your hospital in health care "hot-spotting" utilizing a data-driven process for the timely identification of health care patterns in your area. It allows you to select patient encounters for specific health disparity indicators, identify high-frequency users by patient settingand extract demographic and socioeconomic measures in targeted areas of need. Hospitals can select specific neighborhoods and clinical conditions, including 70 health indicators, to achieve greater insight into factors impacting community health and driving utilization, as well as to evaluate for community health needs analysis activities.
 
To help navigate you through the product and answer any questions you may have, IHA will be hosting two demonstration webinars.

• August 30, 9 a.m. ET. Members can register here
• September 14, 1 p.m. ET. Members can register here

Learn more about Indiana ChimeMaps here or contact Elaine Pittman at epittman@IHAconnect.org or 317-423-7735.