The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #42645

Katherine Cauley, PhD¹, Mary M Crimmins, MA¹, and Dannetta Graves, BA². (1) Center for Healthy Communities, Wright State University, 140 East Monument Avenue, Dayton, OH 45402, 937 775 1114, katherine.cauley@wright.edu, (2) Montgomery County Department of Job and Family Services, 451 West Third Street, Dayton, OH 45422

In Montgomery County, Ohio the most significant barriers to accessing health care for the underserved continue to be lack of information about services and limited coordination of existing resources across service sectors. In order to better identify the uninsured and to facilitate connecting people with appropriate services, the HealthLink Miami Valley Collaborative has developed an integrated MIS system which combines health and social/human services encounter level data. Families without health care coverage who enter the public health system through either hospitals or social services agencies are identified and outreach workers assist them in accessing needed health care services. Aggregate data can be used for community wide health services planning, utilization review and disease management. Presenters will discuss significant elements in the development of the collaborative as well as the critical functions involved in integrating the health and human services data bases. These efforts which have resulted in increased utilization and more appropriate utilization of existing safety net services, can be replicated in communities across the country.

Learning Objectives:

• Participants will be able to identify structures and functions necessary and sufficient for development of a community collaborative to address health care needs in urban counties.
• Participants will be able to identify components of a model for an community wide MIS which integrates client level data for the purposes of identifying uninsured, and coordinating and monitoring services across social and health care service sectors.

Keywords: Access and Services, Information System Integration

Related Web page: www.med.wright.edu/hsm/healthlink/index.html

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.