Geographic health information systems: a platform to support the 'triple aim'.

ABSTRACT: Despite the rapid growth of electronic health data, most data systems do not connect individual patient records to data sets from outside the health care delivery system. These isolated data systems cannot support efforts to recognize or address how the physical and environmental context of each patient influences health choices and health outcomes. In this article we describe how a geographic health information system in Durham, North Carolina, links health system and social and environmental data via shared geography to provide a multidimensional understanding of individual and community health status and vulnerabilities. Geographic health information systems can be useful in supporting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Triple Aim Initiative to improve the experience of care, im

SUBMITTER: Miranda ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4076782 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature