: This project, the Colorado Associated Community Health Information Exchange (CACHIE), will design, develop, implement, and evaluate an interoperable quality information system (QIS) for a collaborative network of community health centers (CHC) that permits real-time and synchronous quality reporting to inform patient care, quality interventions, and health policy and advocacy efforts. The QIS will be foundational in nature, ultimately supporting many types of quality and safety analyses. The QIS will integrate data elements from various information systems (e.g., electronic health records (EHR), claims, and registries) to generate meaningful quality measures and reports at the patient, physician, practice, and population level. The QIS will support: 1) identification of best practices; 2) establishment of appropriate CHC benchmarks; 3) development, implementation, and evaluation of targeted quality improvement interventions, 4) use of clinical decision support systems, and 5) promotion of public policies to improve health and health services to low income populations. The initial chronic disease focus will be on diabetes mellitus in vulnerable rural and urban populations. ? ? ? ?

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Type
Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18)
Project #
1R18HS017205-01
Application #
7359981
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZHS1-HSR-O (01))
Program Officer
Nunley, Angela
Project Start
2007-09-30
Project End
2009-09-29
Budget Start
2007-09-30
Budget End
2008-09-29
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2007
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
Denver Health and Hospital Authority
Department
Type
DUNS #
093564180
City
Denver
State
CO
Country
United States
Zip Code
80204