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Item THE FACTORS OF AN INDIANA BACKGROUND THAT INFLUENCE PRACTICE LOCATION CHOICE OF RESIDENCY AND FELLOWSHIP GRADUATES(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2012-04-13) Natividad, Diana May; Brandt, Amy J.; Kochhar, Komal; Zollinger, Terrell W.A shortage and unequal distribution of health care professionals in Indiana is increasingly restricting access to quality medical care for Indiana residents. There is a limited amount of research on the factors that predominate when residency and fellowship graduates choose their practice location. This pro-ject looks at the different factors affecting graduates’ choices of practice lo-cation, while specifically focusing on the connection of hometown, high school, college, and medical school locations to their decisions to practice in Indiana. Surveys were completed by 264 of the 383 graduating residents and fellows of the graduate medical education programs at Indiana Universi-ty School of Medicine during the exit interview process, yielding a response rate of 69%. The graduates responded to questions concerning demographic characteristics, assessment of their training, plans after graduation, intended practice location, and reasons for choosing their practice location. The larg-est contributor to choosing to practice in Indiana was graduating from a medical school in Indiana (80.6%). Having an Indiana hometown was the least contributing factor (76.1%), but the combination of hometown and medical school was the highest contributing factor (82.1%) to choosing to practice in Indiana. The top three reasons to stay in Indiana given by re-spondents who graduated from an Indiana medical school were “met my professional needs or preferences” (88.0%), “liked the people” (86.0%), and “met my personal needs or preferences” (76.0%). Also, factors concerning the needs of their spouse and family were only moderately important. This project’s data may assist admission committees when choosing graduates for their residency programs. By admitting more graduates who have deeper connections to Indiana, the number of health professionals in Indiana may increase, thus allowing more of Indiana’s residents to have access to quality health care.Item IUPUI Center for Cancer Population Analytics and Patient-Centered Informatics(Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2015-04-17) Haggstrom, David A.; Jones, Josette; Baker, LaylaAbstract: More than 30,000 Indiana residents are diagnosed with cancer each year. Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the state, claiming more than 12,000 lives annually. More than $1 billion was spent in Indiana on direct costs of treating the cancer population in 2003. Indirect costs to cancer patients and their families are also of great importance. Cancer care coordination has the potential to reduce costs and improve quality in cancer care delivery. Coordination may occur both among (1) multiple cancer care providers caring for populations of cancer patients, and (2) between providers and individual patients with cancer The IUPUI Center for Cancer Population Analytics and Patient-Centered Informatics was established in 2013. The center’s mission is to develop team science that combines innovative health information technologies with rigorous health services research methods in order to create knowledge that will have an impact upon the health and health care of patients and populations with cancer in the state of Indiana and the U.S. The center’s goals are (1) to build collaborative, multidisciplinary scientific teams to create national leaders in the state of Indiana in the fields of cancer health services research and informatics, and (2) to perform top-tier national cancer health services research and “big data” analytics to improve the quality, efficiency, coordination, and outcomes of cancer care The Center Cores: To build our research portfolio, we have the following 2 main cores of activity: I. Cancer Population Analytics Core: Data sources from multiple health care organizations throughout central Indiana are being joined together to answer important clinical/epidemiologic questions regarding the quality of cancer care, and design population-based, system interventions to improve the lives of Indiana cancer patients. Further support has been leveraged for this work, namely, the IU Cancer Center has provided a pilot grant to link the Indiana state cancer registry with data from the Regenstrief Institute’s Indiana Network for Patient Care in order to study the utilization of high-cost imaging among cancer survivors. Furthermore, support from a Regenstrief/Merck collaboration will facilitate assessment of the quality of the data linkage at the level of both the patient and cancer case. II. Cancer Patient-Centered Informatics Core: Multiple platforms are being leveraged to develop and test patient-centered technologies to enable individuals to track health care received and communicate with providers. Utilizing OpenMRS, a personal health record (PHR) module was created for colorectal cancer patients including treatment summary information, evidence-based decision support regarding surveillance, and online communication tools. Additional development is being focused upon updating the user interface, creating patient social networks, and providing tools to support patient well-being. Support has also been obtained from the Walther Cancer Foundation to collect information about patient symptoms and from the Regenstrief/Merck collaboration to collect patient-reported outcome measures. Finally, an NIH proposal has been developed for the SUrvivorship Care Plan-PERsonal Health Record Intervention Trial (SUPER-IT), a randomized controlled trial designed to test the effect of this new technology upon both the quality of care received and patient-centered outcomes.