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Immunization Registries Can be Building Blocks for National Health Information Systems
April 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Public health information systems such as immunization registries are an essential component of the information infrastructure and will allow assessment of the impact of changes in health care on the population as a whole.
What Public Health Services Should Citizens Expect from Their State Health Departments?
October 18, 2010 | Program Result Report
ASTHO's 2007/2008 State Public Health Survey collected data on responsibilities, organization and structure, planning and quality improvement from 50 state public health departments.
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
October 1, 2012 | Book
This chapter in Volume XV of To Improve Health and Health Care, explores a new and important source of data, the County Health Rankings.
The Power of a Small Grant: Building a Public Health-Oriented Electronic Medical Record System in New York City
February 11, 2009 | Program Result Report
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is one of the world's largest local public health agencies, with approximately 6,000 employees and an annual budget of more than $1.5 billion.
InformationLinks: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges
February 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
InformationLinks stimulated the participation of public health agencies in emerging health information exchanges, which were developed primarily to serve the needs of providers of individual medical care services.
Missouri Tests System Using Physician Billing Data from a Medical Billing Clearinghouse to Track Immunizations
October 1, 2006 | Program Result Report
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services designed, tested and evaluated a method to capture immunization data directly from physician billing and link it to the state's integrated health information system.
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.