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Automatically extracting email attachment data to reduce costs and save time for local public health departments

AWS Public Sector Blog

Local public health departments must notify public health agencies, like state health departments or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), of reportable conditions. This data is then transmitted to the public health agency for compliance with reporting requirements.

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Supporting state agencies with Medicaid unwinding outreach: Creating a multi-lingual two-way messaging system

AWS Public Sector Blog

During the COVID-19 public health emergency, a continuous coverage requirement was put in place for Medicaid beneficiaries, meaning millions were automatically reenrolled in healthcare coverage without needing to renew eligibility. Then, learn how to monitor the campaign’s effectiveness and response rates in a visual dashboard.

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Creating agentless outbound campaigns to support Medicaid unwinding efforts

AWS Public Sector Blog

The top four concerns that SMAs have shared are outreach and engagement, staffing shortages, returned mail, and reporting capabilities. With SMAs contacting all their members, contact centers must scale to meet increased demand—however, staffing shortages can make this outreach and call support difficult. At least 4.5

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New Mexico delivers customer-obsessed human services programs powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Since HSD’s contact centers all operated from centralized locations, that meant nobody would be around to answer the phone when residents called. Then, with the time they saved managing numbers, they turned their attention to new outreach channels: chat, text, and email.

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Automating returned mail to keep members enrolled during Medicaid unwinding

AWS Public Sector Blog

As the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) begins to wind down, starting April 1, 2023, state Medicaid agencies (SMAs) will have one year to “unwind” temporary COVID-era changes and return to pre-pandemic ways of working. Business level architecture for returned mail processing and constituent outreach 1.

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The Future of the CDC

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Professor Swann has conducted research, outreach and education to improve how health and humanitarian systems operate worldwide. Together we examine the many challenges that the pandemic created for the CDC and look at how they and state and local public health systems can move forward to improve their future pandemic response.

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Extracting, analyzing, and interpreting information from Medicaid forms with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The response to the asynchronous operation is a job identifier (JobId). AWS is ready to support Medicaid agencies as they transform to meet Public Health Emergency (PHE) unwinding efforts. Contact the AWS Public Sector Team to learn more. The Lambda function’s call to Amazon Textract is made asynchronously.