The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Session: MCH Informatics in Research, Policy, and Practice
3049.0: Monday, November 11, 2002: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
MCH Informatics in Research, Policy, and Practice
This session presents the use of informatics in a variety of settings for a variety of uses. Settings cover academics, a university/health department collaboration, and an inter-agency collaboration, and in a practice setting. Types of activities discussed include inter-agency data warehouses to support policy, using longitudinal probabilistic matching to evaluate electronic birth certificate reporting, use of linked data to study developmental delays, and the comparison of chart audits to immunization registries in the assessment of immunization coverage.
Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session the participant will be able to: 1) Describe the use of informatics in research, policy, and practice. 2) Discuss two approaches used to assess two applications of informatics. 3) Compare and contrast the types of databases discussed in the papers and the methods used for linking them.
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organizer(s):Deborah Rosenberg, PhD
Thomas Vallin, MPH
Moderator(s):Thomas Vallin, MPH
8:30 AMDevelopmental delay in Florida
Keith G. Scott, PhD, Marygrace E. Yale, PhD
8:45 AMA state government-university informatics collaboration
Craig A. Mason, PhD, Shihfen Tu
9:00 AMUsing a data warehouse to support policy and MCH program decisions
Derek Chapman, PhD, Richard C. Urbano, PhD, David Law, PhD
9:15 AMBeyond chart audits: Use of an immunization registry for coverage assessment
Matilde Irigoyen, MD, Sally Findley, PhD, Marian D. Chitu, MD, Shaofu Chen, PhD, Frank Chimkin, MBA, MSW, Robert A. Jenders, MD, MS
9:30 AMValidation of EBC medical risk factors using longitudinal linkage, New Jersey 1996-2001
Charles E. Denk, Ph D, Lakota K. Kruse, MD, MPH
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Health Administration
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Pharmacy, Social Work

The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA