272930 Leveraging communities of practice to advance health data in the SE Minnesota Beacon Project

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 : 11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Dan Jensen, MPH , Olmsted County Public Health Services, Rochester, MN
     
The SE MN Beacon program represents 11 county public health departments, 47 public school districts, and several health care providers. It is focused upon building infrastructure for better use of health data to improve asthma and diabetes. These changes are infused and guided through the values and preferences of the community.

Learning Areas:
Communication and informatics
Provision of health care to the public
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe health care delivery transformation from a community perspective 2. List new tools processes and best practices that can be sustainably implemented outside of the SE MN region

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the Associate Director of Olmsted County Public Health overseeing aged and disabled programs, WIC (Women, Infants & Children), and public health informatics. In my Informatics role I serve as the public health project manager for the SE MN Beacon project and project manager for the PH-DOC 2012 core system rewrite. I was part of the inaugural class for Public Health Informatics Institute Informatics Academy and many other focused workgroups.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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