The PHI Center seeks to promote a paradigm of communication among patients, clinicians and public health through a number of interrelated research projects.
- ESP - Electronic medical record support for public health practice
The growing use of electronic medical record systems (EMRs) permits efficient re-use of data already being collected by clinicians during routine private practice, offering an unparalleled opportunity to improve public health practice. Information held in EMR systems includes diagnoses, procedures, laboratory tests, and treatment information, as well as patient demographic data. In order to use this valuable information, we propose to develop systems and software, Electronic medical record Support for Public health practice (ESP), to permit secure, simple, robust, bi-directional PHINMS- and HIPAA-compliant communication between public health authorities, clinicians, and EMR systems. - Indivo - The Personally Controlled Health Record
The goal of our work is to develop and evaluate a lasting information infrastructure for the storage and integration of health care information that can be leveraged for wide area, real time surveillance and health promotion. These multiagent technologies comply with Public Health Information Network standards, and link evolving Regional Health Information Organizations with individuals and with public health agencies.
Our model is a feedback system in which an open source, electronic, web-based, personally controlled health record (PCHR) provides a primary data source for population surveillance and a vehicle for delivery of health promotion messages to individuals. The PCHR system will feed into and draw upon data from a statewide real-time influenza surveillance system, and be integrated with hospital and provider data systems, forming a three-way link among individuals, health care and public health.
