In Partnership with the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers (CCHP), CamConnect manages the Camden Health Database, a 600,000 record administrative database that includes demographic, diagnoses, and financial information for all admissions and emergency room visits to the City’s three hospitals made by City residents. The data provide a picture of healthcare delivery in one of the poorest cities in the country. Dr. Gawande’s article detailed CCHP’s attempts to improve healthcare delivery and how data has been integral to the process of tailoring interventions.
Derek Ziegler of CamConnect and David Solet from Seattle present their work on using and analyzing cross-sectional and longitudinal hospitalization data. Derek obtained longitudinal data for all 3 hospitals in Camden and confirmed that emergency rooms are being overused for primary-care health conditions. You can view the report at: http://www.camconnect.org/CamdenHealthData.html.
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is currently no charge for these products, but users are asked to register and let us know how they use our work. Children's Optimal Health works to improve operations, impact policy, engage the community and support research to improve the health and well-being of all children in Central Texas.
Children's Optimal Health (COH) and Dell Children's Medical Center (DCMC) are excited for the success of their second Transportation-Related Child Injury summit. This event brought together members of the central Texas community to unveil new COH maps highlighting geographic priority areas for child injury intervention and to discuss the next steps to improve local outcomes in child safety.
Children's Optimal Health (COH) and Dell Children's Medical Center (DCMC) are excited for the success of their second Transportation-Related Child Injury summit. This event brought together members of the central Texas community to unveil new COH maps highlighting geographic priority areas for child injury intervention and to discuss the next steps to improve local outcomes in child safety.
CI:Now is conducting a multi-year evaluation of the impact and cost-effectiveness of an innovative collaborative model to provide the right care at the right time to people who are living with serious behavioral conditions that, along with poverty, previous trauma, and other challenges, drive high utilization of the local emergency room and inpatient safety net and the criminal justice system.
Another multi-year evaluation of two different evidence-based models of education and self-management support to prevent immediate hospital readmission by providing low-income and senior people with heart failure – as well as their families and caregivers – with the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully manage their condition. The interventions have just begun and early results are expected in early 2015. Both the interventions and the evaluation are supported by the Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio.
(Inactive) Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies (Portland) (Inactive) Shift Research Lab (Denver*) Neighborhood Nexus (Atlanta)
April 2014
Equity mapping uses GIS technology to make the connection between so-called areas of opportunity — places where jobs are relatively plentiful and access to education, healthcare, and other amenities is close at hand — and communities with high concentrations of low-income and minority residents.
DataHaven is working with local partners to develop a comprehensive indicators program for Fairfield County and surrounding areas, utlizing various data sources including DataHaven's 2015 Community Wellbeing Survey, which interviewed approximately 17,000 residents statewide including over 5,000 in Fairfield County and surrounding areas.
The Greater Hartford Neighborhood Data Hub program, managed by DataHaven, is designed to support the more effective curation, collection, sharing, and use of local-level cross-sector data within Hartford. This public service program creates a sustainable and independent entity to measure improved outcomes and reduced inequities using accurate and impartial data on the region and its neighborhoods.
