COVID-19 Health System and Community Support

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The HSIR team has provided weekly updates with community data visualizations and modeling outputs to Parkview leaders and executives (see also COVID-19 Surge Modeling). The updates have also been shared with our state and regional public health officials, as well as community, industry, and government entities including the Indiana Pandemic Information Collaborative, the Fort Wayne Medical Society, the Fort Wayne Mayor’s Office, and the Allen County Department of Health Board. Additionally, the team continues to support leadership through data analysis, research design, and grant preparation related to COVID-19.

Vaccination simulation tool

As COVID-19 vaccines became available in December 2020, we deployed an application able to simulate vaccination clinics to assist with the planning and daily operations of Parkview’s COVID-19 vaccination clinic. As part of a broader effort involving many departments such as Innovation, Process Improvement, and Nursing Informatics, the application was developed internally by the HSIR team and used to deploy many clinics at Parkview Health and in northeastern Indiana communities, like at rescue missions. Key features of the application include:

  • The simulation of one day of interactions between patients and staff, including screening, patient registration, and vaccination,
  • Multiple user-configurable settings ranging from staffing to task times,
  • All-day and minute-by-minute visualizations of staff utilization, average wait times, and patient lines to identify potential bottlenecks.

The simulation application has been made publicly available alongside a COVID vaccine clinic team handout to help other organizations deploy successful vaccination clinics.

Community surveys

HSIR has worked collaboratively with our community leaders to develop and deploy surveys, and swiftly analyze responses. The insights derived from these surveys are then used by community organizations and local government officials to make data-driven decisions about resource allocation and policy related to COVID-19.

  • 3/4/2020: Pandemic Preparedness Survey (ACDH)
    Allen County Dept. of Health hosting meeting to reduce potential impact of Coronavirus outbreak
  • 3/12/2020: Community Needs Survey – Pre-Sheltering
    Pater, J. and Toscos, T. (2020, April 3). CORONAVIRUS: A Live Community Forum. Community Survey Results. PBS Fort Wayne. Public television report.
  • 4/24/2020: Community Needs Survey – Post Sheltering
    Pater, J. and Toscos, T. (2020, April 24). CORONAVIRUS: A Live Community Forum. New Community Survey. PBS Fort Wayne. Public television report.
  • 12/5/2020: Community Needs Survey – Second Wave
    Allen County Department of Health promoting the re-release of the community needs survey.

Parents and children

  • 3/15/2020: Parent and Child Social Media & Tech Use in Pandemic
    Drouin, M., McDaniel, B. T., Pater, J., & Toscos, T. (2020). How parents and their children used social media and technology at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and associations with anxiety. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2020.0284
  • 7/24/2020: Parent Survey – Needs for Reopening Schools
    Flanagan, M., McDaniel, B. T., Drouin, M., Pater, J., Toscos, T. (2020). Parents’ feelings about school reopening during COVID-19: Survey results from Northeast Indiana. Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.35049.93283

Local health officials

  • 4/15/2020: Northeast Indiana Dental Survey – PPE Needs Assessment for Dental Office Reopening
    Findings shared with leadership of the Indiana Dental Association

Partners

Funding

  • Internal

Publications and presentations

  • Runyan, M., Fawver, J., Coupe, A., & Drouin, M. (accepted). New-onset psychosis following mild COVID-19 infection in a patient with no psychiatric history: A case report including longitudinal follow-up. Psychiatric Research Case Reports.
  • Joshi, H., Flanagan, M., Subramanian, R., & Drouin, M. (2022). Respiratory ECMO Survival Prediction (RESP) score for COVID-19 patients treated with ECMO. ASAIO Journal. 

Talks

  • Pater, J. (June 28, 2022) at NIH AI for Health Equity Symposium. “Human Centered Data Science and Health: The Case of COVID and Post-COVID in NE Indiana” 
  • Guha, S. (June 27, 2022) Nokia Bell Labs at their “Responsible AI” speaker series.  AI in healthcare: Parkview projects on COVID-19 and CL 
  • Cornet, V. and Charles, M. (June 7-9, 2022). HFES Conference. COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Success: An Interdisciplinary Application of Simulation and Modeling. 
  • Cornet, V. (March 20-23, 2022). COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic Success: An Interdisciplinary Application of Simulation and Modeling. Victor presented a poster at the HFES Healthcare Symposium (New Orleans) on the success of our COVID-19 vaccination clinic, on behalf of the team (Tammy, Erica Cumbee, Ethel Massing, Charlotte Gabet, Scott Stienecker, Michelle Charles) 
  • McDaniel, B. T. (2020, June). Screen use during COVID-19: How to create healthy digital habits in families and children. Workshop presented 3 times to a total of approximately 200 professionals and parents for Great Kids Make Great Communities. Allen County, IN.
  • Pater, J. (May 20, 2020). Internet Safety and COVID: What parents need to know. Atlanta Public Schools.
  • McDaniel, B. T. (April 29, 2020). Young Children and Screens during COVID-19, Children and Screens Institute (over 500 parents and professionals from 8 countries)
  • McDaniel, B. T. (April 23, 2020). How to manage screen time with children during the pandemic, WANE TV.

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