*Primary Contact:
Eleanor Littman RN, MSN
Project Manager
Community Chronic Care Network
5200 Soquel Avenue, Suite 103
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
831-465-7871
eleanor.littman@chroniccarenetwork.org

*List all other organizations participating in the HIE:
Regional Diabetes Collaborative
Health Improvement Partnership of Santa Cruz County
Safety Net Clinic Coalition of Santa Cruz County
Cabrillo College
Central Coast Alliance for Health
County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency
Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust
Physicians Medical Group of Santa Cruz (IPA)
Sutter/Santa Cruz Medical Foundation

*Description:
The Santa Cruz County Diabetes Mellitus Registry Project, now called the Community Chronic Care Network (CCCN), builds on a history of productive collaboration among the County’s public, private, and not-for-profit health sectors.  The objective of the three-year (10/04 to 9/07) AHRQ-funded project is to adapt an internet-based diabetes registry developed and used by a local IPA for community-wide use.  The registry is browser-based running in a SQL server dot net environment. 

The Project involves developing Clinical and IT committees with communitywide representation to discuss how to adapt the technical and clinical (decision support) structure of the registry for expansion beyond the single IPA/HMO environment.  The partner organizations include two competing private medical groups, safety net clinics, and public health with a diverse patient populations, payer mixes, and HIT adoption and resources.  The creation of a community registry also involves decisions about how to identify an appropriate legal entity without sacrificing the good will developed by a handshake community collaborative.

The AHRQ research design focuses on achieving provider adoption throughout the community.  The local community college, one of the partner organizations, is providing training expertise based running in a SQL server dot net environment. 

The Project involves developing Clinical and IT committees with communitywide representation to discuss how to adapt the technical and clinical (decision support) structure of the registry for expansion beyond the single IPA/HMO environment.  The partner organizations include two competing private medical groups, safety net clinics, and public health with a diverse patient populations, payer mixes, and HIT adoption and resources.  The creation of a community registry also involves decisions about how to identify an appropriate legal entity without sacrificing the good will developed by a handshake community collaborative.

The AHRQ research design focuses on achieving provider adoption throughout the community.  The local community college, one of the partner organizations, is providing training expertise.