The Population Health Information System: data analysis and software.
This article describes the software developed in the process of creating the Population Health Information System. The software can be applied to a range of administrative data and provides standardized data on the health status and health care use of populations by generating population-based rates of discrete events. The standardized approach permits construction of a comprehensive, comparative picture for residents of defined geographic regions. The addition of a user friendly graphic interface will permit regional planners to do their own data analyses and allow out-of-province researchers to adopt the system for their own uses.
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Manitoba Centre for Health Policy and Evaluation, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
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D018672:Community Health Planning; D003196:Computer Graphics; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D008350:Manitoba; D018855:Single-Payer System; D012984:Software; D018511:Systems Integration