Health IT

Eagle leverages years of Health IT expertise to design, implement, and maintain health and social data systems that improve efficiency and manage the ever-growing amounts of information, helping to improve health and social outcomes.

Eagle’s Health IT solutions provide deep insights and actionable intelligence from health data, leading to more effective patient care and health system surveillance. Eagle’s social program information systems integrate siloed data, enabling better policies, services, and outcomes.

We build and maintain these data systems without compromising personal identifiable information, adhering to regulations and standards for security compliance allowing the secure access and exchange of data.

Capabilities

Eagle offers an ever-growing range of Health IT services that we continually update as data landscapes, health ecosystems, and system architectures evolve.

Integrated Data System Design & Implementation

Eagle scientists aggregate clients’ data, siloed in separate legacy input systems, using the right combination of ETL processes, platforms, cloud-based data storage and maintenance, security protocols, and mechanisms for sharing data with appropriate end-user roles and restrictions.

Interoperability

We facilitate the secure, protected, FHIR -based exchange of personal, health and social information from input to central data systems. Furthermore, to safeguard individuals’ privacy , Eagle employs Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL). We encode and encrypt data at input sites prior to transfer to central repositories, ensuring that patients’ privacy is always protected.

Data Linkage Based on Advanced Cryptographic Techniques

Our central servers receive demographic, health and social data that is encoded and encrypted. We employ advanced cryptographic methods to accurately link records from various input sources, reducing the occurrence of both false positive and false negative matches. Afterward, our ETL processes aggregate and transform the data, so they are ready for analysis.

Surveillance

We specialize in creating and implementing systems that collect real-time data on patients, facilities, and providers in a secure and cost-effective manner. This allows our client agencies to monitor and improve the quality of the nation’s healthcare and social services. Our systems also utilize artificial intelligence to identify potential hazards and anomalies, enabling prompt responses to emerging issues.

Early Childhood Integrated Data Systems (ECIDS)

Eagle works with state Departments of Education to design integrated child services data systems, to aggregate data across multiple siloed legacy systems. This crucial integration will enable states to generate real-time insights about the children and families served, any service gaps, and program successes. More information on Eagle’s ECIDS capabilities can be found here.

Experience

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF)

Eagle provided the end-to-end design and management of centralized health and social services reporting systems. This facilitated SAMHSA’s and ACF’s continuous surveillance of the services, staffing, operations, reach, and effectiveness of their health and social programs.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

Eagle designed and operated cloud-based public health data collection systems maintaining repositories of crucial healthcare data. These repositories, which were maintained with no unscheduled downtime, enabled government agencies, researchers, and industry partners to access and analyze high-quality data on U.S. the behavioral health system.
Eagle successfully administered federal healthcare surveys, achieving high response rates of around 90%. These surveys provided SAMHSA with annual insights into the practices of a majority of the country’s behavioral health providers.

Eagle developed and consistently updated national patient- and facility-level data sets, delivering them accurately and on schedule every year that we were the primary contractor. These data sets also supported SAMHSA’s surveillance efforts and served as valuable analytical resources for various government agencies, researchers, and industry professionals.

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF), and HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG)

Eagle designed transformative Health IT solutions that leverage interoperability and data sharing to support interconnected processes, workflows, triggers, and notifications.

HHS

Eagle played a key role in guiding a federal initiative to combine siloed healthcare data into a single integrated enterprise system. This project brought together multiple Health and Human Services agencies and fulfilled their long-standing goal of having more comprehensive and integrated data on patients and healthcare systems at the national and global level.
Recent examples of our insight are “The Missing Link – Solving patient privacy protection and data linkage challenges for the National Public Health Data System” and “Cloud-based Machine Learning to Address the Nation’s Most Urgent Behavioral Health Problems”.

Success Stories

SAMHSA – The Behavioral Health Locator

The Need: SAMHSA sought to redesign their searchable online database of U.S. mental health and substance use treatment facilities, whose existence and robust functionality was mandated by Congress.

Our Response: Eagle developed a dynamic web application called the Behavioral Health Treatment Services Locator (BH-Locator) built on advanced open-source technologies such as ReactJS, GIS, and the PostgreSQL spatial database. We provided a customized, role-based user experience (i.e., depending on whether users were persons seeking treatment, counselors, researchers, or facilities). We implemented daily integration between the BH-Locator and the Inventory of Behavioral Health Services database to enhance accuracy. Finally, Eagle added an Artificial Intelligence (AI) digital assistant with conversational capabilities using AWS Lex to help users find the information they need from the Locator easily and anonymously.

The Benefits: The BH-Locator provided a comprehensive and privacy-conscious, care-finding resource for millions of U.S. residents needing treatment for mental health or substance use disorders each year.

SAMHSA – The Data Extraction and Visualization System

The Need: SAMHSA sought the capability to analyze SAMHSA data sets as they relate to U.S. geographical boundaries.

Our Response: To provide researchers with a robust view of the nation’s healthcare system, Eagle proposed a comprehensive data analysis resource that includes SAMHSA and various other public health data sets. We developed a dynamic, interactive online data analysis research tool called the Data Extraction and Visualization System (DEVS). Containing data sets from the U.S. Census, Centers for Disease Control, Bureau of Labor, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and numerous other entities, DEVS creates visual layers using Geographic Information System technology that allows researchers to map, examine, and query data related to behavioral health. DEVS’ core was built with open-source GIS technologies (e.g., Google Maps, API, and PostGIS) and uses open-source front-end technologies for its web application.

The Benefit: The intuitive DEVS tool permitted SAMHSA researchers to quickly analyze and view data by accessing multiple data sets simultaneously. SAMHSA lauded Eagle’s integration of multiple technologies into the user-friendly DEVS application as an incubator for innovation.