1. Identify Drug Information Needs: Public health entities o Department of Human Services (DHS) Investigative entities

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1 1. Identify Drug Information Needs: How to Identify Investigative and Collect entities Relevant Data Public health entities 1. Identify Drug Information Needs: o Department of Human Services (DHS) Investigative entities o Department of Health Public health entities Questions to ask: Questions to ask: o What information do you need to help you o What information do need to help you better fulfill your job better fulfill your job responsibilities? responsibilities? o What information may help make your efforts o What information may help make your efforts more effective and impactful? more effective and impactful? o How often do you require updates of the information? o often do you require updates of the o What other drug data do you believe that we should be collecting to bolster information? our anti drug efforts? o What other drug data do you believe that we o Do you have any other recommendations? should be collecting to bolster our anti drug efforts? o Do you have any other recommendations?

2 How to Identify and Collect Relevant Data 2. Identify Essential Drug Data Sets & Specific Data Elements Required: Which drug data sets will help fulfill the customers needs? Those data sets establish your drug data collection requirements (Drug arrests, overdoses, ) Which specific data elements will you need? (Date, time, location, drug type,.) Which specific data elements have require special handling? Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

3 How to Identify and Collect Relevant Data 3. Identify Drug Data Sources DMI identified the source entities that generate the essential drug data sets. o Law Enforcement Drug Submission and Examination result data from crime forensic labs statewide Drug Arrests from the Automate Fingerprint Information System Naloxone Deployments by EMS from the police departments Firearm Shootings from Tetrus, hospitals, open source Firearm Recoveries from the state s database that provides data to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Clandestine Drug Lab processing data from hazmat units statewide Urinalysis results from State and County probation and parole offices

4 How to Identify and Collect Relevant Data 3. Identify Drug Data Sources continued o Public Health: De identified as per HIPAA Naloxone Deployments by EMS from the DOH Toxicology Results data from the State Medical Examiner s Office Addiction Treatment Admissions from the DHS Prescription Drug Monitoring Program data from the Division of Consumer Affairs New Jersey Poison Information & Education Systems Medicaid Data

5 4. Identify the Drug Data Central How to Identify and Collect Relevant Data Repositories and Establish Strategic Relationships: 4. Identify the Drug Data Central Repositories and Establish Strategic Relationships: DMI identified the central repositories 496 that police collect departments drug data sets 496 police More than 200 EMS providers departments Where does all of their and data go? more than 200 EMS Crime forensic labs and the DOH providers. DMI met with executives of Met with executives of these central repositories these What central DMI was seeking repositories accomplish such as crime Why their drug data is vital forensic They labs will receive and drug intelligence the DOH even if and they opted explained: not to share How their personnel could play a role in intelligence production How DMI will provide training opportunities for their employees What DMI was seeking to accomplish Why their drug data is vital How they and the entities that they collect data from will receive drug intelligence even if they opted not to share their data with DMI How their personnel could play a role in intelligence production How DMI will provide training opportunities for their employees

6 4. Identify the Drug Data Central How to Identify and Collect Relevant Data Repositories and Establish Strategic Relationships: 5. DMI Automate identified the Data Collection the Processes central repositories Monitoring that collect the drug environment drug requires data timely sets and consistent 496 police data sharing departments DMI used programs such as and Crystal Reports more than 200 EMS Generates a report providers. preset schedule DMI met with executives of automatically generates an these sends central drug examination repositories report DMI such as crime This process in being implemented statewide forensic labs and the DOH and explained: What DMI was seeking to accomplish Why their drug data is vital How they and the entities that they collect data from will receive drug intelligence even if they opted not to share their data with DMI How their personnel could play a role in intelligence production How DMI will provide training opportunities for their employees