--Key feature is an innovative data
dashboard that makes injury, safety, and transportation equity
information widely available across the state--
PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)'s New Jersey Safety and
Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) Center for Integrated Data and the New
Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety (HTS) are pleased to
announce the launch of njsho.chop.edu, a website that features an
interactive data dashboard that enables users to visualize,
monitor, and track important traffic safety measures across
communities and over time.
The NJ-SHO Center for Integrated Data team is reimagining how
data are collected, integrated, analyzed, and shared to support
safe transport in New Jersey. The
data dashboard offers access to previously unavailable data to
guide and evaluate local and statewide solutions for reducing the
burden of injury and deaths. The website also shares evidence-based
injury prevention, transportation equity, and traffic safety
resources to help drive positive change throughout the state.
"Every community has unique transportation safety concerns,"
said Allison E. Curry,
PhD, the principal investigator of the NJ-SHO Center for
Integrated Data and a senior scientist at the Center for Injury
Research and Prevention at CHOP. "We hope that regional, local, and
community partners will use our dashboard to implement safety
efforts that ultimately move the needle on reducing crashes."
For more than a decade, researchers from CHOP's Center for
Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) have been conducting studies
using the NJ-SHO Data Warehouse, a collection of linked
administrative datasets from NJ on traffic safety and health
outcomes they created. The resource currently contains more than
124 million records on 24 million individuals over a 17-year
period.
HTS is supporting the NJ-SHO Center for Integrated Data with
over $2.5 million in funding. Along
with the launch of this website and dashboard, this funding will
allow the team to continue updating the NJ-SHO Data Warehouse
regularly with additional years and sources of data and to work
with stakeholders across the state to make the website and
dashboard as useful and impactful as possible.
"By innovating how we harness, analyze, and share data, we're
gaining invaluable insights into traffic safety in New Jersey and empowering communities and
policymakers with the tools to enact meaningful change – all with
the goal of reducing fatalities on our roadways," said
New Jersey Attorney
General Matthew J. Platkin.
"Through the grant funding we have made available to Children's
Hospital of Philadelphia, its New
Jersey Safety and Health Outcomes Center for Integrated Data is
offering unprecedented access to crucial information that will help
promote transportation equity and bring us toward a safer future
for everyone."
With the resources provided by the NJ-SHO Data Warehouse to
date, CIRP researchers have published dozens of peer-reviewed
papers, covering topics including effects of Graduated Driver
Licensing policies, transportation equity, and driving outcomes of
autistic drivers, older drivers, pedestrians, and other vulnerable
populations.
The NJ-SHO Center for Integrated Data was also made possible
through partnerships with other New
Jersey agencies, including the Department of Transportation,
the Motor Vehicle Commission, the Department of Health, and the
Office of Information Technology.
About Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:
A non-profit, charitable organization, Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia was founded in 1855
as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing
commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new
generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering
major research initiatives, the hospital has fostered many
discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric
research program is among the largest in the country. The
institution has a well-established history of providing advanced
pediatric care close to home through its CHOP Care Network, which
includes more than 50 primary care practices, specialty care and
surgical centers, urgent care centers, and community hospital
alliances throughout Pennsylvania
and New Jersey, as well as the
Middleman Family Pavilion and its dedicated pediatric
emergency department in King of
Prussia. In addition, its unique family-centered care and
public service programs have brought Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia recognition as a
leading advocate for children and adolescents. For more
information, visit https://www.chop.edu.
Contact: Ben Leach
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
(609) 634-7906
Leachb@email.chop.edu
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