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Big Cities Health Coalition AI Use Case Catalog
Portable to other platforms

Partially — with rework

Some pieces are vendor-specific and would need swapping.

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Use cases tagged Partially — with rework

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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