With twenty years of experience in public health and a highly skilled planning and development team, we have the experience to assist you in your implementation. In addition to our implementation expertise, our specialists provide services including information technology assessments, needs assessments, public health consulting and planning, and technical assistance with grant writing.

STC bases its data analysis on the Public Health Paradigm (PHP) methodology integrated with the Information Technology Alternative Assessment Methodology (ITAAM). This results in a public health based information technology assessment that has six primary elements:

• Discovery and data collection leading to problem identification
• Identification of key stakeholders
• Needs assessment and gap analysis to measure the magnitude of the problem
• Identification the problem causes and determinants
• Development of recommendations and implementation plans
• Creation of parameters for planning evaluation

Technical, Clinical and Professional Information Gathering

During the analysis process, STC is careful to ensure that information is gathered from all representatives of the public health arena. Typically, interviews are conducted on-site using standardized assessment forms. These forms address quality assurance needs, statistical analysis capabilities and other pertinent information needed for efficiently and effectively analyzing potential and existing problems.

Feasibility

There are often multiple compounding factors effecting public health problems. Likewise, there are often barriers that prevent full implementations of interventions. Because of these, the Planning and Development team places problems in one or more feasibility categories. Additionally, interventions are ranked based on feasibility factors as well.