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American Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Meeting
November 14-18, 2009

Posters related to NewYork-Presbyterian System SelectHealth’s Continuity of Care Document (CCD) HRSA Special Projects of National Significance.

AMIA-0021-A2009.R1. Urban PLWH’s Willingness to Share Personal Health Information. P. Teixeira; S. Bakken; E. Camhi; P. Gordon

AMIA-0056-A2009. Barriers and Facilitators to Use of a Continuity of Care
Document (CCD) in HIV/AIDS Care: Persons Living With HIV/AIDS (PLWH) and Health Care Provider Perspectives. D. Wantland; M. Odlum; R. Schnall; P. Teixeira; P. Gordon; E. Camhi; S. Bakken

AMIA-0088-A2009. Cognitive Evaluation of Case Managers’ Use of a Continuity of Care Document for Persons Living with HIV. R. Schnall; D. Kaufman; S. Hyun; S. Bakken

AMIA

If your clinic or practice hasn’t implemented an Electronic Health Record (EHR) the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has a program that you might consider. The Primary Care Information Project (PCIP) (http://www.nyc.gov/pcip) has been in existence since 2005 and has completed 1,500 EHR implementations in NYC. It currently offers: subsidized licensing of eClinicalWorks (http://www.eclinicalworks.com), support for installing and implementation, assistance in practice redesign, privacy and security, meaningful use, pay for performance and biosurveillance. I have attached the Program Application including a description of the Program Eligibility and Program Benefits.  PCIP Application

You can also apply online at: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/pcip/pcip-ehr-app.shtml#7

While PCIP has included a subsidy for the eClinicalWorks license this
support is running out and it is uncertain if it will continue in 2010.
Practices considering participation should contact PCIP (pcip@health.nyc.gov) as soon as possible.

The PCIP project has applied for funding as a Federal Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (http://healthit.hhs.gov/extensionprogram) which would permit continuing support for EHR-enabled primary care.

How often do you want to share a link to a web page with a family member, friend or colleague?   What if you have a series of links to share?  What if you want to share these links often?  Of course you could email each one each time, but a new free web site makes it easier.  sqworl allows you to place any number of links on a web page with a single web address which you can forward to anyone.  

Here’s a sqworl link to a web page I set up to share with grantee’s to whom I provide technical assistance for Ryan White:

Ryan White Technical Assistance References

http://sqworl.com/?i=c3884e

Each link is shown with a mini view of its opening page.  The link is open to anyone so it can be shared freely.  

In the upper left corner of the screen is a search box to allow sqworl visitors to search all sqworl pages by name. On the lower left corner of the screen is my user name.  If you click on it you will see all the sqworl pages I have created.  

sqworl pages can be updated or deleted by their creator at any time.

To create a page you must have a user account (which is free).  Once logged in you name the page and then enter or paste each url you want to include.  Hopefully in some future version you will be able to automate this by is dragging urls to the page or posting them by email.  

Lots of possible uses.  Consider creating pages that collect links for a particular topic or subject.  Highly recommended.

To view a video introduction of the concept posted by the founder Caleb Brown:

http://www.sqworl.com/

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