Zhou Leming, Watzlaf Valerie, Abernathy Paul, Abdelhak Mervat
Department of Health Information Management at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA.
FOCUS Pittsburgh Free Health Center in Pittsburgh, PA.
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2017 Jul 1;14(Summer):1d. eCollection 2017 Summer.
To improve the health and well-being of the medically underserved in a free clinic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a multidisciplinary team representing several health information management and information technology (IT) professionals, including faculty, students, researchers, and clinicians, created a novel IT system called imHealthy. The imHealthy system includes four critical components: a multidomain well-being questionnaire, a mobile app for data collection and tracking, a customization of an open-source electronic health record (EHR), and a data integration and well-being evaluation program leading to recommendations for personalized interventions to caregivers serving the medically underserved. This multidisciplinary team has worked closely on this project and finished critical components of the imHealthy system. Evaluations of these components will be conducted, and factors facilitating the design and adoption of the imHealthy system will be presented. The results from this research can serve as a model for free clinics with similar needs that identified by the research team in Cleveland, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Motor City, Orange County, San Diego, and St. Louis.
为改善宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡一家免费诊所中医疗服务不足人群的健康状况和福祉，一个由多名健康信息管理和信息技术（IT）专业人员组成的多学科团队创建了一个名为imHealthy的新型IT系统，这些专业人员包括教师、学生、研究人员和临床医生。imHealthy系统包括四个关键组件：一个多领域福祉问卷、一个用于数据收集和跟踪的移动应用程序、一个开源电子健康记录（EHR）的定制版本，以及一个数据集成和福祉评估程序，该程序会为服务于医疗服务不足人群的护理人员提供个性化干预建议。这个多学科团队在该项目上紧密合作，完成了imHealthy系统的关键组件。将对这些组件进行评估，并介绍促进imHealthy系统设计和采用的因素。这项研究的结果可以为研究团队在克利夫兰、印第安纳波利斯、明尼苏达州、汽车城、奥兰治县、圣地亚哥和圣路易斯所确定的有类似需求的免费诊所提供一个范例。
