National Health Information Infrastructure July 22, 2004

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National Health Information InfrastructureJuly
22, 2004

• The Values and Benefits of Participation in
  Connections a Community of Practice for
  Integrating Child Health Information Systems
• Rhode Islands KIDSNET Experience
• Amy Zimmerman, MPH
• Chief, Office of Children's Preventive Services
• Division of Family Health
• Rhode Island Department of Health

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What is KIDSNET?

• Integrated Child Health Information System
• Contains data from nine public health programs
• Creates a child profile
• Used by health care providers, schools,
  headstarts, Health department programs etc.

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What is AKC and Connections?

• All Kids Count (AKC)-RWJ program to foster the
• development of information systems that improve
  childrens health
• 1992-2000 Immunization registries (grant-based)
• 2000-2003 Integrate multiple preventive child
  health information systems (Community of
  Practice Connections)
• Administered by the Public Health Informatics
  Institute

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What is the purpose of Connections?

• Create a peer to peer learning community
• Assist participants move their own integration
  project along
• Create a shared vision of for integrated
  preventive health information systems

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Who participated in Connections?

• Departments of Health Iowa, Michigan, Maine,
  Missouri, Oregon, Rhode Island, Utah
• City or County Departments of Health New York
  City,Santa Clara
• Other Projects Kansas Integrated Public Health
  System, CalOptima (Medicaid organization)
• Consultants and other Government
• Agencies (HRSA, CDC)

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How was Connections Structured?

• Site Visits
• Group Project
• Conference calls
• Electronic conferencing
• Informal e-mail, attending other meetings
• Electronic Documentation Website

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What was the overall value of belonging to
Connections?

• Valued relationships (professional and personal)
• Safe, trusted and honest environment
• Mutual support, increased motivation
• Increased credibility with own stakeholders
• Leveraged to promote own project at home
• Site visits
• Learning from those who have been there
• took half a year off our own project

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What was the value to RIof belonging to
Connections?

• Adopted and improved upon bar-coding method from
  Oregon
• Leveraged NYCs experience with vendor
• Enhance staff training morale during site visit
• Leveraged participation internally/externally
• Theres leverage that can be gained to be able
  to say we were part of this selected group

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What was the value to othersof belonging to
Connections?

• UT visited NYC own own to assess some middle ware
• MO keyed in on deduplications issues after NYC
  and RI site visit
• NYC trying to model UTs semaless interface with
  InterMountain Health Care EMR

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Contact Information

• Amy Zimmerman MPH
• Chief Office of Childrens Preventive Services
• Rhode Island Department of Health
• 3 Capitol Hill
• Providence RI, 02908
• (401)-222-5942
• amyz_at_doh.state.ri.us