title: 'Down and dirty' medical information system identifies high-risk patients.
abstract: Home-grown information system works for this PHO. Puyallup Valley Healthcare in Puyallup, WA, needed a way to identify patients who could benefit from case management, but the PHO didn't have a lot of money to spend on expensive information systems. See how the staff designed their own information system, combining data downloaded off the internet and the PHO's own software.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D019090:Case Management; D004194:Disease / Q000145:classification; D006759:Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008331:Management Information Systems; D012307:Risk Factors; D014861:Washington