Data Center

is a collaborative effort of the University of Tennessee, University of Memphis and the Healthy Memphis Common Table (HMCT) to support health and healthcare improvement initiatives throughout the Mid-South, by using hard data to track our community’s progress toward measurable health goals.

 

Mission

• To create a health and healthcare data infrastructure to:
• Support health promotion efforts for children and women in the Mid-South,
• Support Initiatives of the Healthy Memphis Common Table and its Community Partners and
• Assist in community-wide health and healthcare data reporting.

Key Long-term Goals

• Measure area provider and community success in providing STEEEP (safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and patient-centered) prevention-focused care.
• Obtain, tract and report short-term, intermediate & long-term outcome measures for local health & healthcare initiatives.
• Obtain, track and report behavioral risk factor data related to obesity and diabetes.
• Make the Healthy Memphis Data Center a resource for the entire Memphis and Shelby County community, and a model for the state of Tennessee.

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• Provide scientific evidence regarding best practices and models for HMCT.
• Assist in overall process and outcomes evaluation of the HMCT Obesity/Diabetes initiative
• Help HMCT Community Partner Working Groups/Action Teams and Project Teams:
• Establish measurable outcome goals,
• Develop data collection strategies,
• Monitor and document progress toward goals,
• Document outcomes of 2005 intervention Projects

Support

 

Supported through a grant from the Urban Child Institute (formerly LeBonheur Health Systems, Inc.)

 

Disclaimer 

 

Information presented here does not necessarily represent the views of the HMCT as a whole.