June 1, 2002
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Program Result
In South Carolina, where 50 percent of the immunizations are delivered in the private sector, SIIS queried private providers to determine their hardware needs, addressing a principal cost issue before it became a barrier.
June 1, 2002
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Program Result
A unique partnership of public and private health care organizations in Oregon was a driving force behind the success of the Oregon immunization registry, ALERT.
June 1, 2002
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Program Result
In 1999, the Oklahoma immunization registry, OSIIS, helped shape the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation on the use of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) rather than oral polio vaccine (OPV).
June 17, 2002
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Program Result
Michigan represented All Kids Count's largest, and in many ways, most complex project. At the project's conclusion in June 2000, MCIR reported impressive statistics: it included 1.7 million child records and 14 million immunization records.
June 1, 2002
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Program Result
The dramatic growth of managed health care in most states has proven to be both an opportunity and a challenge for immunization registries.
June 1, 2002
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Program Result
In Arkansas, the health department staff faced the challenge of migrating the immunization registry from the health department's legacy Wang mainframe computer to an NT file server.
October 1, 2001
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Program Result
The National Center for Lead-Safe Housing, Columbia, Md., provided technical assistance to cities and states to help them develop and manage comprehensive, coordinated childhood lead-poisoning-prevention programs.
March 1, 2001
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Program Result
From 1994 to 1999, Drug Strategies, Washington, produced and disseminated profiles of substance abuse problems and prevention and treatment efforts in five states and created a how-to guide to aid other states interested in creating their own profiles.
July 31, 2008
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Program Result
From mid-2001 through 2004, the Maine Coalition on Smoking or Health, with Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation as the lead organization, conducted statewide activities to reduce tobacco use, particularly among children and youth.
July 14, 2008
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Program Result
The state of Mississippi convened the Healthy Mississippi Summit, June 15, 2006, in Jackson, Miss., to focus attention on the primary causes of chronic diseases in Mississippi and to promote a statewide approach to promoting healthy lifestyles.
