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Improving Health Care for Children
July 15, 2009 | Story
"I owe an enormous amount of my success to the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, both the Clinical Scholars Program and the Generalist Faculty Scholars Program," said Christakis.
Program Raises Pediatricians' Consciousness about Kids and Guns
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Ill., developed and oversaw the Firearm Injury Prevention Training Project to provide pediatricians with the skills and the resources necessary to reduce firearm injuries and deaths among children.
Planning a Web-Based Immunization Registry for Rhode Island
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Rhode Island's KIDSNET wanted its registry to meet the needs of Rhode Island's private providers its success depended on it, since nearly 100 percent of immunizations in the state are given by private sector providers.
Baltimore Immunization Registry Campaigns to Enroll Providers
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The registry launched an intensive recruitment campaign involving the majority of immunization department staff, with the goal of having all enrolled by end of 1998.
Getting an Immunization Registry Up and Running After Its Software Vendor Goes Bankrupt in Nevada
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Immunization registries don't constitute a large or profitable market for private vendors of registry software and in 1998, only a dozen or so registry software vendors served all the registries in the country.
Connecticut Immunization Registry Focuses on Quality, Not Expansion
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
Some health agencies develop their own immunization registry system, while others purchase software from vendors. Neither choice is necessarily the right one - both can be fraught with difficulties, delays, and cost overruns.
Overcoming Barriers to Using South Carolina's Immunization Registry
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
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.
Unique Funding Partnership for Oregon's Immunization Registry
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
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.
Improving Data Quality in New York City's Immunization Registry
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
In October 1997, when CIR applied for the All Kids Count grant, 60 percent of private, office-based providers were sending immunization reports to the registry in response to a mandate that went into effect in January that year.
Data from Oklahoma's Immunization Registry Helps Shape CDC Policy on Polio Vaccine
June 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
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).