AI Use Case Catalog A shared catalog of AI use cases, tools, and lessons learned from Big Cities Health Coalition member health departments. https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/ 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 Wastewater surveillance trend alerts https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/wastewater-surveillance-trend-alerts/ 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 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. Home-visit note summarizer for community health workers https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/home-visit-note-summarizer-for-community-health-workers/ 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 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. Extreme-heat outreach targeting brief https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/extreme-heat-outreach-targeting-brief/ 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 2026-08-26T00:00:00-05:00 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. Syndromic surveillance signal triage assistant https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/epi-signal-triage/ 2026-06-18T00:00:00-05:00 2026-07-30T00:00:00-05:00 Reads the daily syndromic alert export, drafts a plain-language note for each signal, and ranks the ones an epidemiologist should open first. Inspection backlog dashboard built with an AI coding assistant https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/inspection-backlog-dashboard/ 2026-07-21T00:00:00-05:00 2026-07-21T00:00:00-05:00 A nightly operations dashboard for environmental health backlogs, built in three weeks by one developer working with an AI coding assistant. Plain-language rewrites for public notices https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/plain-language-notices/ 2026-07-08T00:00:00-05:00 2026-07-08T00:00:00-05:00 A prompt kit and review checklist staff use to rewrite public notices at a sixth-grade reading level without changing what the notice requires. Multilingual environmental complaint intake https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/311-multilingual-intake/ 2026-05-02T00:00:00-05:00 2026-06-22T00:00:00-05:00 Translates and classifies resident complaints about rodents, mold, noise and air quality from the 311 feed and web forms into inspector work orders. Contract clause summaries for procurement review https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/contract-clause-review/ 2026-06-02T00:00:00-05:00 2026-06-02T00:00:00-05:00 Vendor tool that extracts clauses from scanned agreements, summarizes them in plain language, and flags gaps against our standard terms. New hire onboarding checklist assistant https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/onboarding-checklist-assistant/ 2026-01-27T00:00:00-06:00 2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00 Builds a personalized checklist for each new hire, opens the access requests it can, and answers policy questions from the staff handbook. Meeting notes to action items for a partner coalition https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/coalition-meeting-notes/ 2026-04-30T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-30T00:00:00-05:00 A short playbook for turning regional coalition meeting recordings into a reviewed action list that partner organizations receive the next day. Grant narrative copilot https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/grant-narrative-copilot/ 2026-04-14T00:00:00-05:00 2026-04-14T00:00:00-05:00 A vendor-hosted assistant grounded in our own program library, used by staff to draft first-pass narratives for federal funding applications. Plain-language restaurant inspection summaries https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/restaurant-inspection-summaries/ 2026-02-20T00:00:00-06:00 2026-02-20T00:00:00-06:00 Nightly job that rewrites inspector code citations into two-sentence summaries a resident can understand, for the public inspection lookup site. Overdose spike situational brief generator https://crypticpy.github.io/bchc-ai-use-case-catalog/catalog/overdose-spike-brief/ 2025-07-22T00:00:00-05:00 2025-07-22T00:00:00-05:00 Assembles naloxone runs, emergency department visits and medical examiner reports into a one-page situational brief within an hour of a spike alert.