The Northern Health Data and Analytics teams (along with many provincial partners) were nominated for the Partnership Premier’s Award and landed in the top three nominations for their work on COVID-19 health analytics. This award recognizes joint ventures or multi-party initiatives between BC Public Service organizations, organizations in the broader public sector, other levels of government, Indigenous communities, or in the private or non-profit sectors.
Northern Health staff from the following departments were involved in this work:
- Communicable Disease
- Human Resources Planning & Analytics
- Information Management/Information Technology
- Population & Public Health
- Quality and Information Management
- Strategic Analytics
They worked in partnership with external organizations and groups, including:
- BC Centre for Disease Control
- First Nations Health Authority
- Fraser Health Authority
- GeoBC
- Ministry of Health Government Communications and Public Engagement
- Interior Health Authority
- Island Health Authority
- Metis Nation of BC
- Ministry of Health: Health Sector Information, Analysis and Reporting (HSIAR), IT, and Provincial Health Officers (PHO)
- Provincial Health Services Authority
- Vancouver Coastal Health Authority
- Vancouver Island Health Authority
A province-wide partnership allowed teams to coordinate data, from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic to the final phases of the mass vaccination campaigns. Information systems and reporting channels were rapidly established to monitor COVID-19 cases, hospital and front-line capacity, vaccines, anti-viral treatments, and more. Critical information was available to inform public health decisions and media communications, impacting the lives of every British Columbian.
Teams from the Ministry of Health and Provincial Health Services Authority shared information, definitions, and procedures in a rapidly changing landscape and under immense public inquiry. Public health officials, data analysts, data architects, epidemiologists, and scientists worked together across organizational boundaries and under extraordinary circumstances to ensure provincial officials had access to the most current data to share with the province as we all navigated through the pandemic.
Congratulations to the teams for the recognition of all their hard work!
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