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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
4212.0: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 2:30 PM

Abstract #112102

Organizational opportunities and barriers to deploying, maintaining or upgrading a web based data dissemination system

Annie Gjelsvik, PhD, Center for Health Information and Communication, Rhode Island Department of Health, 3 Capitol Hill, Room 103 Cannon Building, Providence, RI 02908, 401-222-5119, AnnieG@doh.state.ri.us

Many states now have web based data dissemination systems (WDDS). Each state that has deployed a WDDS has faced a different set of organizational opportunities and barriers. These organizational opportunities and barriers have large impact on the type of system selected, how the system is procured, the timing of system deployment and the datasets included in the system.

Organizational issues that affect WDDS are: place of project within organizational structure and particularly relationship to information technology group, number of full time equivalents (FTEs) devoted to the project over what length of time, funding sources for the project, and organizational impetus for undertaking project. Examples of tradeoffs that states deploying a system need to consider are: whether to develop, adopt or buy a system, how much work to contract out versus do in-house, when to narrow the focus, and who to choose as an initial target audience.

Based on key informant interviews with states currently deploying a WDDS (such as Massachusetts, Missouri, Washington, Maryland, Utah, New Mexico) this talk will outline how these organizational opportunities and barriers shaped the system.

Learning Objectives:

Keywords: Health Communications, Information Technology

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.

[ Recorded presentation ] Recorded presentation

The Development, Impact, and Future Needs of Interactive Web-based Data Dissemination Systems for Public Health Data: Tools for Community Health Assessment and Policy Development

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