June 1, 2002
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Children are receiving their shots on time in San Bernardino County, Calif., as a result of implementing the immunization registry with its reminder/recall function.
June 1, 2002
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In Washington State where an unusual approach to funding the registry had been adopted in 1997.
June 17, 2002
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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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The goal of an immunization registry is to provide doctors, nurses, and others with the information that they need to ensure children receive appropriate immunizations.
June 1, 2002
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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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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.
June 1, 2002
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Program Result
The Santa Clara County IRIS made a concerted effort to ensure that the new technology of a registry not only met the needs of its users but also added value to each provider's operations.
April 1, 2008
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Program Result
Common Sense Media and the Aspen Institute convened leaders in public health and education, policy-makers and media executives to explore ways of creating a healthier media environment for children and their families.
March 29, 2007
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Program Result
The All Kids Count II program sought to make 16 immunization registry projects based in local, county, and state health departments fully operational by January 1, 2000.
January 13, 2008
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Consumer psychologist Sonya A. Grier, PhD, MBA, a Health & Society Scholar, collaborated with colleagues to study fast-food marketing and targeted interventions to combat childhood obesity.