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Big Cities Health Coalition AI Use Case Catalog

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13 use cases

  • Extreme-heat outreach targeting brief
    Playbook or write-up

    Stage: Idea / exploringOrganization: Sunrise Plains Regional Health Coalition

    Extreme-heat outreach targeting brief

    A worked plan for using the county's existing heat-vulnerability index plus forecast data to decide, two days ahead of a heat event, which neighborhoods get door-knocking, which get robocalls, and which cooling centers to extend — written up for other jurisdictions to adapt before we build anything.

    • Emergency preparedness
    • Environmental health
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Anyone on staff Readiness: Reference only Data it touches: Public data only Who sees the output: Partner organizations
  • Home-visit note summarizer for community health workers
    Internal tool

    Stage: PilotOrganization: Cedar Valley County Health Department

    Home-visit note summarizer for community health workers

    Result in one line: Visit notes filed same-day rose from 54% to 93% in the eight-week pilot

    Community health workers record a short voice memo after each home visit; the tool transcribes it, drafts the structured visit note in our case-management format, and queues it for the CHW to review and file — turning a 20-minute typing task into a 4-minute review.

    • Clinical & community services
    • Staff & partner coordination
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Guided setup Readiness: Needs a data agreement4 more
  • Wastewater surveillance trend alerts
    Dashboard

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Harborview Metro Health District

    Wastewater surveillance trend alerts

    Result in one line: Epi team saw the winter flu rise nine days before case reports confirmed it

    Watches the weekly wastewater sampling results for the metro's five treatment plants, flags statistically unusual rises for COVID, flu and RSV, and posts a short plain-language alert to the epi team's channel before the Monday briefing.

    • Epidemiology & surveillance
    • Data & informatics
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Guided setup Readiness: Needs customization4 more
  • Backlog dashboard with open and past-due totals and bar charts of past-due inspections by district and by inspection type.
    Internal tool

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Baytown Metro Health District

    Inspection backlog dashboard built with an AI coding assistant

    Result in one line: Built in three weeks against a four-month estimate; replaced four hand-merged spreadsheets

    A nightly operations dashboard for environmental health backlogs, built in three weeks by one developer working with an AI coding assistant.

    • IT & operations
    • Environmental health
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Developer Readiness: Needs customization Data it touches: Internal, non-public data Who sees the output: Internal staff
  • Side-by-side view of an original boil water notice and its plain-language rewrite, with a pre-publication review checklist.
    Featured Playbook or write-up

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Prairie Ridge County Health Department

    Plain-language rewrites for public notices

    Result in one line: Median reading level of published notices dropped from grade 14 to grade 7

    A prompt kit and review checklist staff use to rewrite public notices at a sixth-grade reading level without changing what the notice requires.

    • Communications & outreach
    • Emergency preparedness
    Skills needed to set it up: Anyone on staff Readiness: Ready to deploy Readiness: Human review built in2 more
  • Triage queue listing seven ranked syndromic signals with area, what changed, signal strength and status.
    Featured Source code

    Stage: PilotOrganization: Lakeshore City Department of Public Health

    Syndromic surveillance signal triage assistant

    Result in one line: Cut daily alert review from 90 to 30 minutes for two analysts

    Reads the daily syndromic alert export, drafts a plain-language note for each signal, and ranks the ones an epidemiologist should open first.

    • Epidemiology & surveillance
    • Data & informatics
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Human review built in3 more
  • Clause summary table listing indemnification, data ownership and other clauses with plain-language summaries and comparison flags.
    Vendor product

    Stage: PilotOrganization: Summit Ridge County Health Department

    Contract clause summaries for procurement review

    Result in one line: Cut first-pass contract review from five business days to one

    Vendor tool that extracts clauses from scanned agreements, summarizes them in plain language, and flags gaps against our standard terms.

    • Finance, procurement & contracts
    • Legal & compliance
    Skills needed to set it up: Contractor or vendor Readiness: Needs a paid license Readiness: Needs a data agreement3 more
  • Inspector queue showing translated complaints with the original language, assigned category, urgency tier and routing status.
    Featured Cloud deployment

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Riverbend County Public Health

    Multilingual environmental complaint intake

    Result in one line: Median time from complaint to routed work order fell from two days to four minutes

    Translates and classifies resident complaints about rodents, mold, noise and air quality from the 311 feed and web forms into inspector work orders.

    • Environmental health
    • Communications & outreach
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Contractor or vendor Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Needs a contractor4 more
  • Transcript excerpt beside a drafted action item table listing each action, the owning organization, a due date and status.
    Playbook or write-up

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Northgate City Health Department

    Meeting notes to action items for a partner coalition

    Result in one line: Action lists reach partners in one day instead of two weeks

    A short playbook for turning regional coalition meeting recordings into a reviewed action list that partner organizations receive the next day.

    • Staff & partner coordination
    • Emergency preparedness
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Reference only Readiness: Human review built in2 more

  • Vendor productStage: In productionOrganization: Metro North Health District

    Grant narrative copilot

    Result in one line: Halved first-draft time on routine narrative sections, from about eight hours to four

    A vendor-hosted assistant grounded in our own program library, used by staff to draft first-pass narratives for federal funding applications.

    • Leadership & administration
    • Policy & planning
    • Finance, procurement & contracts
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Needs a paid license Readiness: Needs customization3 more
  • Review table pairing inspector code citations with drafted resident summaries, style rule checks and an approve or reject decision.
    Source code

    Stage: Idea / exploringOrganization: Cedar Valley County Health Department

    Plain-language restaurant inspection summaries

    Result in one line: 92% of drafted summaries passed the weekly style review without edits

    Nightly job that rewrites inspector code citations into two-sentence summaries a resident can understand, for the public inspection lookup site.

    • Environmental health
    • Communications & outreach
    Skills needed to set it up: Developer Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Human review built in2 more
  • Onboarding checklist for a new inspector, grouped by before day one, day one, week one and week two, with progress tiles.
    Internal tool

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Two Rivers Regional Health District

    New hire onboarding checklist assistant

    Result in one line: Cut first-week help desk tickets from 11 to 3 per new hire

    Builds a personalized checklist for each new hire, opens the access requests it can, and answers policy questions from the staff handbook.

    • HR & workforce
    • IT & operations
    Skills needed to set it up: Power user Readiness: Guided setup Readiness: Needs customization4 more
  • Draft situational brief showing four summary tiles, a bar chart of naloxone runs by neighbourhood, and the drafted narrative.
    Featured Source code

    Stage: PilotOrganization: Harbor City Health Department

    Overdose spike situational brief generator

    Result in one line: Cut brief turnaround from three days to under one hour

    Assembles naloxone runs, emergency department visits and medical examiner reports into a one-page situational brief within an hour of a spike alert.

    • Epidemiology & surveillance
    • Clinical & community services
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Needs a data agreement5 more

    Last confirmed Jul 2025

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