Query to CSTE Health Department teams using who use Python.

Hello CSTE teams, currently we are attempting to leverage our IT department in our county to get on board with up-to-date software and have received a large pushback. In order to innovate and be as efficient as possible, we need to acquire permissions for use of new tech.

One of the programs we aim to use is Python. Are there any CSTE teams who already have employed Python into their software suite? If so, how do you use Python on your health data? We have provided the context to our IT department, their fear is we will create apps with it. This is far from the direction we aim to go if we are to obtain Python. We would like to get our Health surveillance to a point where Python can mine the data in a way that identifies key words on a population level that can point us to brewing pockets of crisis, in a sense, use it as a preventive measure to identify where we should aim our intervention efforts.

Does any Health department already use Python and how do you use it?

Thanks bunches for weighing in.