Implementation of a Health Data-Sharing Infrastructure Across Diverse Primary Care Organizations

Facilitating Health Data Sharing Across Diverse Practices and Communities

Health data sharing with and among practices is a method for engaging rural and underserved populations, often with strong histories of marginalization, in health research. The Institute of Translational Health Sciences, funded by a National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award, is engaged in the LC Data QUEST project to build practice and community based research netwo...

Standards for secure data sharing across organizations

This paper discusses standards-based approaches for secure data sharing across organizations. In particular, current standards as well as standardization trends for data integration, multimedia data management, active real-time data management, data warehousing and mining, expert data management, semantic web data management, knowledge management, visualization, metadata extraction and manageme...

Implementation of "Chronic Care Model" for Diabetes Care in Iranian Primary Health Care: Does it work?

Objective: Traditional health care systems were not capable to face successfully with chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus. In this regard, the Chronic Care Model or CCM was created to promote quality of care. The aim of this study was to examine whether establishment of chronic care model, with focus on diabetic patients, has led to clinically significant outcomes in Iran. Materials a...

Non-governmental organizations and primary health care.

[A challenge for primary health care: mental health care implementation].

The objective of this study was to evaluate mental health care provided within a primary health care setting. The study was conducted in a Primary Health Care Center (PHC) in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. A comparative study was made between pediatricians' diagnosis of mental health problems and those identified by the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in children (5-11 years) from August to Oct...