PHMC Center for Data Innovation

Posted by on April 22, 2013

PHMC establishes new research data center

Public Health Management Corporation has launched the PHMC Center for Data Innovation to address the increasingly important role of data in health care policy and decision making.

The mission of the center is to drive data-led community impact for the well-being of the community as a whole. The center will include capabilities, in addition to PHMC’s Community Health Data Base, for both nonprofit and corporate members in the Delaware Valley area.

PHMC says the center is designed to help health services providers, policymakers and communities target and measure the impact of their programs/initiatives.

To measure community impact, the center will look at data needed at every stage of the program planning and implementation process, ranging from needs assessment surveys, program strategy and implementation based on needs assessments, community indicators of health and well-being, economic analysis and return on investment.

Center services include a geographic reach that extends beyond the Southeastern Pennsylvania region; quantitative data collection through the Community Health Data Base and its biennial Household Health Survey, other targeted community surveys, and qualitative data collection including focus groups, key informant interviews and multimodal research initiatives that are integrative with and expand the depth of our community surveys; community health needs assessments and community health policy studies; technical assistance trainings on outcome measurement and logic models; and innovative online tools, data dashboards, web page applications, and enhanced online analytic capabilities that improve the accessibility and timeliness of information that the center collects.

For more information, go here.

http://www.phmc.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=807:public-health-management-corporation-launches-phmc-center-for-data-innovation&catid=71:2013&Itemid=1574