TY - JOUR
KW - Community Health Care
KW - Community Health Centers/organization & administration
KW - Comprehensive Health Care/organization & administration
KW - Cooperative Behavior
KW - Database Management Systems/organization & administration
KW - Delivery of Health Care, Integrated/organization & administration
KW - Electronic Health Records
KW - Electronic Health Records/organization & administration
KW - Health Information Technology
KW - Health Services Accessibility/organization & administration
KW - Health Services Research/organization & administration
KW - Humans
KW - Interdisciplinary Communication
KW - Medical Informatics/organization & administration
KW - Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)/organization & administration
KW - Patient Care Team/organization & administration
KW - Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration
KW - patient-centered medical home
KW - Practice-based Research Network
KW - United States
AU - J. E. DeVoe
AU - A. Sears
A1 - 
AB - Creating integrated, comprehensive care practices requires access to data and informatics expertise. Information technology (IT) resources are not readily available to individual practices. One model of shared IT resources and learning is a "patient-centered medical village." We describe the OCHIN Community Health Information Network as an example of this model; community practices have come together collectively to form an organization that leverages shared IT expertise, resources, and data, providing members with the means to fully capitalize on new technologies that support improved care. This collaborative facilitates the identification of "problem sheds" through surveillance of network-wide data, enables shared learning regarding best practices, and provides a "community laboratory" for practice-based research. As an example of a community of solution, OCHIN uses health IT and data-sharing innovations to enhance partnerships between public health leaders, clinicians in community health centers, informatics experts, and policy makers. OCHIN community partners benefit from the shared IT resource (eg, a linked electronic health record, centralized data warehouse, informatics, and improvement expertise). This patient-centered medical village provides (1) the collective mechanism to build community-tailored IT solutions, (2) "neighbors" to share data and improvement strategies, and (3) infrastructure to support innovations based on electronic health records across communities, using experimental approaches.
BT - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
C5 - HIT & Telehealth
CP - 3
CY - United States
DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2013.03.120234
IS - 3
JF - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
N2 - Creating integrated, comprehensive care practices requires access to data and informatics expertise. Information technology (IT) resources are not readily available to individual practices. One model of shared IT resources and learning is a "patient-centered medical village." We describe the OCHIN Community Health Information Network as an example of this model; community practices have come together collectively to form an organization that leverages shared IT expertise, resources, and data, providing members with the means to fully capitalize on new technologies that support improved care. This collaborative facilitates the identification of "problem sheds" through surveillance of network-wide data, enables shared learning regarding best practices, and provides a "community laboratory" for practice-based research. As an example of a community of solution, OCHIN uses health IT and data-sharing innovations to enhance partnerships between public health leaders, clinicians in community health centers, informatics experts, and policy makers. OCHIN community partners benefit from the shared IT resource (eg, a linked electronic health record, centralized data warehouse, informatics, and improvement expertise). This patient-centered medical village provides (1) the collective mechanism to build community-tailored IT solutions, (2) "neighbors" to share data and improvement strategies, and (3) infrastructure to support innovations based on electronic health records across communities, using experimental approaches.
PP - United States
PY - 2013
SN - 1557-2625; 1557-2625
SP - 271
EP - 278
EP - 
T1 - The OCHIN community information network: bringing together community health centers, information technology, and data to support a patient-centered medical village
T2 - Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine : JABFM
TI - The OCHIN community information network: bringing together community health centers, information technology, and data to support a patient-centered medical village
U1 - HIT & Telehealth
U2 - 23657695
U3 - 10.3122/jabfm.2013.03.120234
VL - 26
VO - 1557-2625; 1557-2625
Y1 - 2013
ER -