Principles and core functions of integrated child health information systems.
Infants undergo a series of preventive and therapeutic health interventions and activities. Typically, each activity includes collection and submission of data to a dedicated information system. Subsequently, health care providers, families, and health programs must query each information system to determine the child's status in a given area. Efforts are underway to integrate information in these separate information systems. This requires specifying the core functions that integrated information systems must perform.
Hinman
Alan R
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All Kids Count, Public Health Informatics Institute, Task Force for Child Survival and Development, Decatur, GA 30030, USA. ahinman@taskforce.org
Atkinson
Delton
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Diehn
Tonya Norvell
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Eichwald
John
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Heberer
Jennifer
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Hoyle
Therese
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King
Pam
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Kossack
Robert E
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Williams
Donna C
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Zimmerman
Amy
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