Care setting

Public Health & Population

Surveillance and outreach beyond a single encounter.

2 scenarios

Public program

A wastewater trend brief for the public health desk

The U.S. CDC National Wastewater Surveillance System publishes pathogen trends from sewage, which health departments read next to emergency and lab data. Some jurisdictions add a statistical nowcast on top of that feed. This card is about the desk workflow, not a claim that a named model forecasts incidence with a stated error. Wastewater is a population signal. It does not diagnose a person.

CDC NWSS · Local epidemiology desk

News · 2024Read the case

Public Health & Population

Illustrative

A navigator list for people overdue for cancer screening

This is an illustrative composite, not a trial report. A registry ranks patients who are overdue for a fit test, mammogram, or other screening the health system already recommends. Navigators call down the list. Before anyone trusts the rank order, the team checks whether the score under-calls a language group, a neighborhood, or a payer. No detection-rate improvement is claimed. A biased rank can widen a gap the program meant to close.

Population health registry · Outreach workqueue

Hospital · 2026Read the case