Objective. The purpose of this study was to validate the effectiveness of a Multimedia Case History Program (MCHP) designed for pharmacy students to simulate a case-history taking session. Methods. Seventy-nine undergraduate pharmacy students used an MCHP that presented an asthmatic or diabetic patient. Of these, 52 students also volunteered to interview a researcher in a face-to-face simulatio...

These are exciting times to be at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). The size and diversity of databases at MCHP provide an unprecedented opportunity to conduct population health and health services research and research into the determinants of health. Current holdings now represent over 90 databases of health, education, social services, survey and clinical data, as well as instrum...

CONTEXT The Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) is a university research centre with a long-standing contractual arrangement with government. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this project was to examine the facilitators and challenges in the development, establishment and continuation of MCHP. METHODS In-depth, semi-structured interviews with 28 participants selected purposefully and a documen...

The mission of MCHP is to provide accurate and timely information to healthcare decision-makers, analysts and providers, so they can offer services which are effective and efficient in maintaining and improving the health of Manitobans. Our researchers rely upon the unique Population Health Research Data Repository (Repository) to describe and explain patterns of care and profiles of illness, a...

What lessons have we learned at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) about knowledge translation (KT) over the past 20 years, and what is our vision for the future? How does that KT interrelate with our other activities - research and the Population Health Data Repository? Who first noticed that "there's gold in them thar hills," and what did they do about it? How did we weave administr...

BACKGROUND The Manitoba Health Registry does not fully identify First Nations Manitobans, impacting the ability to adequately describe their health status and use of health services using this data source alone. This paper describes the processes in producing a valid database for use in a population-based report by the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP). METHODS The Indian Registry's St...

Maryland Medicaid and the Maryland Children’s Health Program (MCHP) provide health care services to low-income individuals. Between them, the two programs cover over 950,000 individuals, approximately 80 percent of whom receive services through HealthChoice, a capitated managed care program. Beginning in January 2014, the Medicaid expansion that is included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is e...

Web service will covert user defined application into web application. Vehicular Adhoc network (VANET) provides information about the surrounding to nearby user. It access and provides web services. Here we are using QOS based services to providers. To provide scalability of services, we are using multiple cluster head protocol (MCHP) and our architecture provides both inter and intra cluster s...

The mission of MCHP is to provide accurate and timely information to health care decision-makers, analysts and providers, so they can offer services which are effective and efficient in maintaining and improving the health of Manitobans. Our researchers rely upon the unique Population Health Research Data Repository to describe and explain patterns of care and profiles of illness, and to explor...