The San Bernardino County Department of Public Health (DPH) has updated HealthStat, an open performance website that measures what the department is doing to keep San Bernardino communities healthy. HealthStat is about “Measuring What Matters” and to showcase to the public how well DPH is performing through the use of data and stories.
“It’s a data evolution — a data revolution,” said Trudy Raymundo, Director of DPH. “The ability for us to be transformative in something as simple as putting out metrics, data, information and resources is something that I’m hoping is not just transformative for the department, but for the community.”
According to Raymundo, “a healthy community is not just about the people. It’s about quality of life, civic engagement, opportunities and access, safety, transportation and education. Sometimes people think healthy communities are specific to people, but more importantly, it’s about the environment and the opportunities for people to be healthy.”
With this open data platform, data will be more easily accessible for our partners and the community to use for their own benefit, research and projects. The data presented on HealthStat will help tell the best story of all the hard work being done every day by all the employees at DPH.
HealthStat is an open performance portal powered by Tyler Technologies’ Socrata Connected Government Cloud (SGCG) platform. HealthStat tracks the department’s progress implementing the Strategic Plan, Quality Improvement Plan and Workforce Development Plan, as well as across five performance sub-categories, including Health and Wellness, Partner Engagement, Community Improvement, Disaster Preparedness and Department Operations. Each category page includes “metric cards” that provide data on the progress for each initiative and allow visitors to dive deeper into the different efforts of the department’s many programs.
Visit HealthStat at healthstat.dph.sbcounty.gov to explore what your health department is doing to keep you and your community healthy.