CEDRIC: a computerized chronic disease management system for urban, safety net clinics.
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.
Ogunyemi
Omolola
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Center for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Family Medicine, Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA. lolaogunyemi@cdrewu.edu
Mukherjee
Sukrit
S
Ani
Chizobam
C
Hindman
David
D
George
Sheba
S
Ilapakurthi
Ramarao
R
Verma
Mary
M
Dayrit
Melvin
M
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*