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Big Cities Health Coalition AI Use Case Catalog
Cost to keep running

Under $10k/yr

6 use casesRefine these 6 in use cases →

Use cases tagged Under $10k/yr

  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • 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