title: Reminding and monitoring: new uses of administrative data for preventive care.
abstract: This article illustrates how administrative data can be used to improve population health in an environment of fiscal constraint. In our universal single-payer health system, health care providers submit standardized data. This allows provinces to create health information utilities that generate population-based data that can be used for research and health care delivery. Although more study is needed to determine the cost-effectiveness of using such data to raise the rates of primary and secondary prevention, it appears that appropriately designed information systems could improve population health with relatively little additional cost.
authors.affiliation: University of Manitoba.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Roos
authors.forename: D S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Fedson
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Roberts
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Cohen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D016208:Databases, Factual / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017589:Immunization Programs; D007251:Influenza, Human / Q000517:prevention & control; D010819:Physician's Role; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012042:Registries; D018855:Single-Payer System; D019472:Universal Health Insurance; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control; D014798:Vital Statistics