For many years, the Department of Health’s AIDS Tracking Team has had errors in their laboratory reporting system, preventing them from sharing their data with the Federal Centers for Disease Control. To get all of their data to the CDC, multiple DOH staff had to manually re-edit 30% of all test results and send them one-by-one. CCI reviewed both the laboratory information management system and the database to identify the root cause of these errors and find ways for the DOH to automate the process, allowing the data to be shared more accurately and without constant manual effort.
As a result of this project, the DOH can spend more time gathering the data and using it to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through the State of Hawaii, and the whole of the USA can benefit from Hawaii’s findings.