The self-inflicted injury indicator available on the Mental Health Dashboard was updated in February 2025 to remove the ICD-10-CM code Z91.52, Personal history of nonsuicidal self-harm. This code was added to the ICD-10-CM standard with an effective date on October … Read more

Firearm violence continues to be a topic of concern for many Americans, and North Carolina is no exception. In 2021, 1,839 persons were killed by firearm violence in North Carolina, making it the state with the 8th  highest fatality rate … Read more

With approval from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) publish annual ICD-10-CM coding guidelines that provide HIPAA-required instructions … Read more

The recording for our February 21, 2023 webinar on the use of NC DETECT and the North Carolina Violent Death Reporting System Dashboard for firearm injury surveillance is now available on our training page. NC DETECT has firearm injury indicators … Read more

Unintentional falls, defined by the WHO as events in which an individual comes to rest on the ground, are the leading cause of non-fatal injury-related emergency department visits in the United States (CDC). Of the over 8 million unintentional fall-related … Read more

Through their collaboration, North Carolina Firearm Injury Surveillance Through Emergency Rooms (NC-FASTER), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Injury Prevention Research Center and Carolina Center for Health Informatics, along with the North Carolina Division of Public Health’s Injury … Read more

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a series of diseases, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, that lead to obstructions in one’s respiratory system and, in turn, difficulty breathing (CDC). Common causes of COPD include exposure to tobacco smoke and other … Read more

Mental health-related outcomes are a point of great concern, particularly in times as tumultuous as these. One report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, found adults reporting symptoms of anxiety disorder and/or depressive disorder increased from 11% in 2019 to 41% … Read more

One of the strengths of the recently released NC Transportation Safety and Public Health Data Dashboard is its ability to leverage data from multiple sources, allowing for a deeper understanding of pressing public health issues. In this first installment of … Read more

In addition to the NC Transportation Safety and Public Health Data Dashboard released earlier this month, several other dashboards have been released, leveraging different elements of NC DETECT data. You can find a summary of each below: Annual ED Visit … Read more