As professor Horan suggests me a “real hands-on” project, I would like to join the project of MiVIA, which was launched in 2003 as an electronic personal health record for migrant and seasonal workers in Sonoma Valley, California. Migrant and seasonal farm workers and mobile population groups suffer disproportionately from undiagnosed or unattended chronic medical conditions due to a lack of continuity of care resulting from a transient lifestyle. This fragmentation of care contributes to poor health outcomes and increased costs (duplication of services or tests). MiVIA offers a solution while the purpose of it is to store and download health information and make that information available to multiple doctors and clinics. I will be participating in interviews with the workers, and hopefully will come up with some significant findings regarding the effectiveness of MiVIA and improvements for MiVIA.
Posted by IS Learning Studio, Fall 2007 - Angela Chen
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