APHL 2018 Annual Meeting Poster Abstracts
System Database (PHLSD) and provide information on its use.
Poster content will demonstrate how PHLs can benefit from using
the PHLSD as a repository for their own data and as a searchable
directory that allows for querying testing services across those PHLs
that have submitted their data.
Project Design: The PHLSD is a web-based tool developed by APHL
with support from CDC, which enables PHLs to enter and access
information on their regulatory and testing capabilities. PHLs who
complete test data entry will be able to obtain reports showing what
tests are performed in other PHLs who have also completed their
test data.
Results: APHL held eight one-hour webinars attended by 135
laboratorians from member PHLs in Fall 2017. Thus far, 17 state
and four local PHLs have completed the PHLSD. Stories will be
provided from PHLs on how they have used the reporting tools in
their database for CLIA inspections and other benefits to submitting
their testing data.
Conclusion: The PHLSD is creating a comprehensive national
PHL test directory that offers a strategic approach for preparing
for regulatory inspections, organizing, reporting and sharing
information. This will allow for greater transparency, enhance
opportunities for collaboration, inform interoperability efforts and
provide a resource in times of emergency or surge.
Presenter: Jacob Rosalez, Association of Public Health
Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD, Phone: 240.485.3830,
Email: [email protected]
What We Know About State Public Health Laboratories
Funding and Spending
S. Woldehanna and J. Rosalez, Association of Public Health
Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD
Background: In this time of diminishing budgets, public health
laboratories (PHLs) need to be able to determine the status of their
funding sources and plan to launch new revenue sources to respond
to future changes. APHL has been collecting financial data from
public health laboratories over several years and intends to provide
insights on revenue and expenditure patterns that they may use for
decision making and advocacy purposes.
Methods: Financial data from APHL’s State Public Health
Laboratories (SPHLs) Profiles Survey data was compiled for analysis.
While most analyses were limited to data from the 2015 survey,
data from 2010 was used for the analysis of changes over time.
Due to low response rates during these years, local and agricultural
and e