Nevada Center for Health Statistics and Informatics (NCHSI)

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Contact Information

Nevada Center for Health Statistics and Informatics (NCHSI)
School of Community Health Sciences, Mailstop: 274
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
Phone: (775) 682-7094
Email: weiyang@unr.edu

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Program Information

Through an approach known as “Centralized Health Data Warehouse”, NCHSI extends health statistics beyond simply using the statistics and computer as a tool for computation to a process of knowledge acquisition, storage, retrieval, linkage, analyses, and representations of health, human and other related data.

The Center, housed in the School of Community Health Sciences, provides technical capacity and collaborative opportunities for researchers and health professionals in Nevada on:

• statistical methodology,
• sophisticated database design,
• data collection, data management,
• data analysis,
• data dissemination and
• data presentation.  

To provide powerful data management and analysis capacity, as well as to protect confidential and human subject information, the Center is equipped with:

• high capacity PCs and
• security coded door locks high capacity Data Server (1 TB memory size plus expendable capacity), which is singly dedicated to the Center with HIPAA compliant IT management.    

The core projects and databases at the Center currently include:

• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS),
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS),
• Nevada Cancer Registry,
• Nevada Hospital Discharges,
• Nevada Death registry,
• Nevada Birth registry,
• Nevada Traumatic Brain Injury Registry, and
• Nevada Mental Health Discharges and Nevada Early Intervention Services.  

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Staff Bios