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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
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The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA |
Reneé Boynton-Jarrett, BS, Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, 617-432-1029, rboynton@hsph.harvard.edu, Louise M. Ryan, PhD, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02115, Saira J. Malik, MPH, Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, Elmer Freeman, MSW, Community Center for Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS), 360 Huntintgton Ave, 398 CP, Boston, MA 02115, and Rosalind Wright, MD MPH, Associate Physician and Instructor of Medicine, Channing Lab, Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115.
Partnerships between Universities and Community Health Centers (CHCs) are often based on initiatives by research institutions that are subsequently conducted in CHCs. Several Community Health Centers in Boston, MA identified the need for a computerized clinical database system to facilitate the development of community initiated and directed research and to ensure more rapid translation of research findings to their communities. In response to this request, a university affiliated research team, the Asthma Coalition on Community, Environment, and Social Stress (ACCESS) and a community-based organization, the Center for Community Health Education, Research and Service (CCHERS), joined to develop a workshop on ‘Clinical Databases in the Community Health Center Setting.’ The goal was to develop a common vision for data-sharing between CHCs and academic research institutions in Boston. Building such infrastructure promises to sustain mutually productive partnerships. The workshop brought together participants from diverse fields and objectives included: (1) to assess the needs of Boston's CHCs and the potential role for user-friendly clinical database systems; (2) to review present models for data-sharing and clinical databases in the Boston area; (3) to discuss the feasibility and sustainability of databases in the CHC environment. Presently, grant-writing efforts and follow-up meetings are underway to address recommendations from the workshop. This presentation will review the process of developing the workshop, a shared agenda, and the results of the discussion regarding challenges associated with clinical database implementation and sustainability in the CHC setting.
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Keywords: Community Collaboration, Partnerships
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.