Making the Public’s Health a National Priority: How PlanStreet Empowers Public Health Organizations to Do More

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During the American Public Health Association's (APHA) Annual Meeting, public health professionals come together to strategize with the top leaders on how to advance community health nationwide. The theme for 2025 is "Making the Public's Health a National Priority", which emphasizes the importance of prioritizing public health efforts to improve the health and welfare of the population.

Americans are seeing vast health disparities in their healthcare. In 42 states and D.C., avoidable mortality rates for Black individuals are twice as high as those of the group with the lowest rate. Statistics like these show the desperate need for better communication and equity, closing the gap between healthcare delivery and outcomes.

While policy, advocacy, and procedure remain drivers of change, technology can improve care. Public health case management software like PlanStreet is the quiet engine behind better decision-making, coordinated care, and measurable impact.

The Challenge: Fragmented Systems and Limited Data

One of the biggest challenges for public health departments, community health centers, and human service organizations is to communicate about their clients' needs. There are over 3,000 state and local health agencies operating without clear coordination from the federal government. They often utilize outdated legacy systems that make it difficult to:

• Track population health data
• Coordinate services
• Report outcomes effectively

These challenges deepen related issues. Inadequate data infrastructure and fragmented funding drive health disparities, including high preventable death rates. Additionally, public health struggles to maintain a robust workforce, with a hiring process that averages 204 days for government agencies (compared to 12-49 days in the private sector).

PlanStreet helps solve these problems through a single platform that offers centralized case management, integrated health program reporting software, and automated workflows, designed specifically for public sector organizations.

4 Ways PlanStreet Supports Public Health Priorities

The APHA's public health priorities are focused on: tackling the health impacts of climate change, expanding access to health coverage and services, and strengthening the national public health infrastructure and workforce. Here's how PlanStreet can help.

1. Integrated Data Management

In the private sector, companies that use data to drive decision-making are 23 times more likely to outperform their competitors. Digital transformation in public health can have a similar positive effect.

Case management software creates a single source of truth, a place to collect, track, and analyze data in one system. Health and human services programs can look to what has worked in the past to address present needs. PlanStreet is available on any device, so public health professionals can pull critical information quickly wherever they're working.

2. Outcome-Based Reporting

A key goal in community health management is to improve outcomes. To do that, agencies need reporting software that helps them measure their program's efficacy.

With PlanStreet, you can generate real-time dashboards and health outcome reports that align with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and state reporting standards.

Public Health Professionals can:

• Build customized reports based on your organization's needs.
• Export a report in one click with user-friendly tools.
• Use our Excel integration to export existing data into PlanStreet's dashboard.

3. Collaboration Across Agencies

Medical providers, social workers, and community partners all must work together for optimal case management in healthcare. PlanStreet connects these entities through:

• Closed-loop referral tracking, so that no patient slips through the cracks.
• Role-based permissions, so that each provider can access critical client data securely.
• Secure messaging and comment features, so that providers can add notes to cases or client files with real-time updates.

With PlanStreet, providers have a hub to brainstorm every part of case planning for clients.

4. Automation for Impact

Physicians spend 35% of their time documenting patient data. PlanStreet offers automated solutions to help health professionals spend less time on paperwork and more time on people.

• Intake: Drag-and-drop forms capture client data with conditional logic, automatic validations, eSignatures, and file uploads, automating intake.
• Assessments: Build custom templates and calculate scores automatically. Case planning integration can trigger goals, next steps, and referral recommendations.
• Task Assignments: PlanStreet can automatically assign tasks to the right team members. It sends alerts and notifications for upcoming deadlines, appointments, and follow-ups.

Why PlanStreet for Public Health Agencies

PlanStreet was built specifically for the human services sector, with each of our tools meeting the needs of government agencies, nonprofits, and community-driven programs (not corporate healthcare). Our software is FedRAMP-ready and HIPAA-compliant; plus, it follows NIST 800-53 protocol for premium security.

We created PlanStreet so that it could be scaled and adapted to meet each program's needs. Whether it's managing maternal health programs, disease prevention initiatives, or behavioral health services, you choose the applications you need to meet your goals. Of course, our experts can help you decide what you need and build out your platform.

PlanStreet's Proven Impact: New Jersey Children's Alliance

The New Jersey Children's Alliance focuses on healing and justice for child abuse victims. They provide special care coordination for children across the state, across 21 Child Advocacy Centers (CAC) and multidisciplinary teams (MDTs). However, they struggled with fractured case management, each county using different systems to track referrals.

After switching to PlanStreet, their case processing time decreased by 30%, allowing them to respond faster to critical child welfare materials. Agencies said they experienced smoother communication, and leadership can now generate real-time reports across all counties.

From Vision to Action With PlanStreet

Making the public's health a national priority requires collaboration and innovation that improve outcomes. PlanStreet's platform empowers public health professionals to achieve that by turning case management data into actionable insights, enabling agencies to serve communities more effectively.

As conversations at APHA 2025 focus on national strategies for public health improvement, case management software will be a partner to help boost real change. PlanStreet stands ready to help health departments and community organizations:

• Transform their workflows
• Connect systems
• Improve health outcomes

Learn how we can help improve your public health data system and schedule a live demo with our experts today.

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