title: Linking personal and public health information: a vision for community-centered health information systems.
abstract: As health care in the U.S. and worldwide has shifted from a centralized, institution-based model to a distributed process occurring largely in the communities, Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) initiatives must also move toward addressing the challenges of integrating health information at the community level. The Wisconsin IAIMS initiative strives to create such a solution, anchoring its efforts in a regional health information technology architecture by partnering with Wisconsin-area communities as the foundation that will ensure the establishment of the appropriate collaborations to gain adequate investment and generate sustainable solutions for health information integration.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, Madison, WI, USA. kkwiatkowski@facstaff.wisc.edu
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kwiatkowski
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Brennan
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006801:Humans; D016490:Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D018802:Patient-Centered Care; D012040:Regional Health Planning; D018511:Systems Integration; D014922:Wisconsin