KDHE’s KIC Website Offers New Data from Emergency Departments Tool makes diagnoses and other statistics available online for first time

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has added a new dataset to its
online health data query tool, Kansas Information for Communities (KIC). Emergency department data
from the state’s general hospitals is now available on the KIC page.
“Using KIC, individuals and policy makers will be able to see the diagnoses that bring almost 900,000
residents to emergency departments at Kansas hospitals,” said KDHE Acting Secretary and State Health
Officer Lee A. Norman, M.D. “This information can provide an insight into the injuries and illnesses
affecting Kansans, many of which are preventable.” Using the KIC emergency department data, individuals will be able to produce statistics on the number of
ED visits by county, race, ethnicity, sex and various diagnosis categories. KIC can produce counts, rates and age-adjusted hospital ED or inpatient rates. Other datasets contained
in KIC include hospital discharge procedures, births, deaths, pregnancies, cancer and population.