title: CEDRIC: a computerized chronic disease management system for urban, safety net clinics.
abstract: To meet the challenge of improving health care quality in urban, medically underserved areas of the US that have a predominance of chronic diseases such as diabetes, we have developed a new information system called CEDRIC for managing chronic diseases. CEDRIC was developed in collaboration with clinicians at an urban safety net clinic, using a community-participatory partnered research approach, with a view to addressing the particular needs of urban clinics with a high physician turnover and large uninsured/underinsured patient population. The pilot implementation focuses on diabetes management. In this paper, we describe the system's architecture and features.
authors.affiliation: Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Family Medicine, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA. lolaogunyemi@cdrewu.edu
authors.forename: Omolola
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ogunyemi
authors.forename: Sukrit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Chizobam
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ani
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hindman
authors.forename: Sheba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: George
authors.forename: Ramarao
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ilapakurthi
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Verma
authors.forename: Melvin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dayrit
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003628:Database Management Systems / Q000458:organization & administration*; D020000:Decision Support Systems, Clinical / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000379:methods; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D015141:Los Angeles; D019037:Urban Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*