KEYWORDS:
Public/Private Partnerships
Collaboration
BACKGROUND:
A Public/Private Partnership involving the Texas Children's Hospital (TCH), the Houston Department of Health & Human Services (HDHHS), Harris County Public Health & Environmental Services (HCPHES) and the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD) have worked collaboratively for seven years to develop, pilot, assess and now implement an immunization registry for the greater Houston-Harris County region. This local, public health registry, the Houston-Harris County Immunization Registry (HHCIR) was designed as a sub-set of the statewide registry, ImmTrac. The public/private collaboration has been evident in all phases of development, beta testing, protocol development, policy development and is now being used for community wide implementation and rollout. This collaboration has also been instrumental in developing new sources of funding to maintain operational growth and funding security.
OBJECTIVE(S):
Participants will identify appropriate roles for both public and private partnerships
METHOD(S):
PowerPoint presentations with handouts
RESULT(S):
The Houston-Harris County Immunization Registry has successfully developed in a Public/Private environment.
CONCLUSIONS(S):
Public/Private partnerships require tremendous effort to organize and maintain, but the benefits are worth the effort.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
pitfalls of Public/Private partnerships
benefits of Public/Private partnerships
developing sound organizational infrastructure
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