Title

Arizona HealthQuery

Authors

n/a

Topic

Public Health Informatics

Year

2007

Abstract

What is AZHQ? AZHQ is the Arizona HealthQuery. The project’s goal is to develop and maintain a community health data system that houses essential and comprehensive health information for each resident of Arizona. This data system serves as a community resource for assessing the health status and health care needs of the state. The AZHQ data system is unique for its ability to (a) provide vast amounts of continuously updated health care information, and (b) link patients across systems and over time. How can AZHQ help the community? AZHQ helps the community by putting actionable information from millions of health records at the fingertips of health care researchers and policy makers. In addition to assisting community leaders in public policy decisions, AZHQ allows clinicians to study specific disease states and identify special-needs populations, as well as establish more effective and efficient models of care. This unprecedented volume, quality, and accessibility of data will revolutionize the way health care research is conducted in the community and will drastically improve the efficiency with which communities receive reliable, local information about their health.

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