Future Plans

In 2009-10, NH plans to focus on: (1) analyzing and making available the BRFSS indicator report for additional geographic areas and refining the design preparing for launch of the health behavior risk factor module for WRQS, (2) launching the claims data module and designing the health care delivery module for WRQS, (3) building a prototype of the performance measures module, (4) including a demographics module, (5) continuing to evolve and expand the HealthWRQS website to include reports of the most recent year of county-level data for all indicators in the library, and (6) promoting HealthWRQS and exploring options for sustainability.

Next steps in the technical development of the HealthWRQS system include upgrading from Cognos Series 7 to Cognos Series 8, which will allow significant advancement in the development of the HealthWRQS project. These enhancements include: a security model that will support installation on an external web server, eliminating the need for VPN connections; ability to produce community health profiles that allow a user to define a custom geographic area and with one click receive batch of multiple indicator reports; improved ad hoc query functionality that will allow release of an ad hoc query system to all appropriate users; improved report development tools that will speed development process of reports for the system; a guest users account that will allow reports for county and state geographic areas to be accessed without restriction.