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Bradley KJ, Rogers B. 2007. Capacity building for Oregon's children with heritable conditions: [Final report]. Portland, OR: Oregon Department of Human Services, Health Services, Office of Family Health, 24 pp., plus appendices.

Annotation: This final report provides information about the Promoting Integration of State Health Information Systems and Newborn Screening Service Systems program during the period April 1, 2003, through March 31, 2007. The project addressed a number of problems that affected the system of services for infants and children in Oregon, including poor communication and lack of integration among data systems. The report discusses the project purpose, goals and objectives, methodology, accomplishments, evaluation, lessons learned, future plans, plans for sustainability, and publication and presentations. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child health, Data linkage, Final reports, Health care systems, Infant health, Information systems, Neonatal screening, Oregon, Service coordination

Lutz RM. 1988. The effects of confidentiality and related laws on the ability to link health and social service data bases. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, 88 pp.

Annotation: The purpose of this report is to review and assess the extent to which constitutional provisions, confidentiality statutes and regulations, informed consent laws, and court decisions applicable to jurisdictions in Region III of the United States Department of Health and Human Services inhibit or restrict the integration and linkage of Title V Program databases and other health and social service data files. The focus of this report is to provide the Title V offices with information useful in their efforts to develop database linkages both among their individual programs and with other databases maintained by state and local governmental offices and agencies within their respective jurisdictions. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Confidentiality, Data linkage, Databases, Legislation, Title V programs, Region III
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