Expanding the ICAN MRM into an International Integrated Multi-Agency Injury Data System (IMIDS) to improve injury surveillance and integrate injury prevention services and case management

Injury and violence is a leading public health problem. The scope of injury and violence control is broad, encompassing diverse classifications of intentional and unintentional injury, with disciplines from public health, medicine, social work, maternal child head, exercise science, law enforcement, highway safety, to urban and regional planning. Injury surveillance is necessary to identify patterns and types of injury to effectively quantify and design interventions to prevent injury and violence. Several problems exist: 1) Injury surveillance efforts are often challenged due to not having readily available injury data; and 2) Injury and violence prevention interventions are most effective when disciplines collaborate. But in many cases disciplines work separate but have similar goals, such as those serving individual families and those serving the public, a gap that can limit effectiveness of interventions.

The International Integrated Multi-Agency Injury Data System (IMIDS) will be presented to describe its objective to improve injury data collection in real-time and integrates multi-agency injury prevention services and prevention at the local, state and federal, and even international level injury data systems, including case management.