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Alabama Department of Public Health
 - HIV/AIDS Division
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Jane Cheeks, the Director for the HIV/AIDS Division, was
responsible for choosing a viable system to manage the
growing caseload of AIDS patients in Alabama. After
searching three years to find a way to eliminate their
growing amount of paperwork and data entry, CIMSgts
introduced a system that electronically captures and
combines data to provide more valuable information for
understanding and managing the HIV/AIDS crisis.
CIMS gts provided an “off the shelf”
Web-Enabled Case Management System that includes
Automated Forms Processing. The system, known as
Communicable Disease Case Information System ( CDCIS),
interfaces to a custom data base application to manage
the HIV/AIDS data requirements for the State of
Alabama. The HIV/AIDS Module provides Alabama with a
combined database for: Case Management, Contact
investigation, Medication dispensing and tracking,
Procedures scheduling and Reporting, Auto RVCT Export
to TIMS (Government Mandated Data Collection),
Aggregate Reporting to the Centers for Disease
Control, and State Wide Tracking System.
Today ADPH employees use one database with secure,
web-based data entry and management for use inside or
outside of the Health Department. There is no longer a
need to share multiple copies of their database
through daily disk transfers from desktop to desktop.
Information entered by one person is available to all
authorized users in real-time.
The CDCIS System can also expand into all other health
tracking systems to automatically provide patient
cross matching. (either talk about the HIV and TB
Systems being used together and/or AL’s ability to
have access to the
very latest stats on the community at large etc.)
CIMSgts continues to work with ADPH to
modify the CDCIS HIV/AIDS Module. CIMSgts is
currently working to add: Auto
exporting to NEDS, additional queries and reports,
Community Agency Interface, State Lab Interface,
Additional patient management and daily tracking
reports, and the ability to integrate hand held
devices into the current module. CIMSgts is
also working to form a Consortia of States that will
work to continuously improve the CDCIS Software. The
CDCIS software is being marketed to State Health
Departments Nationwide.
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