Goodman, HealthPartners, & VSD

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Vaccine Safety Datalink Site

http://www.ahip.org/content/fileviewer.aspx?docid=307 & linkid=3146

HEALTHPARTNERS RESEARCH FOUNDATION

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Principal Investigator: J. Goodman, PhD

Site Description

HealthPartners Research Foundation (HPRF) is a nonprofit research center that

conducts public domain research as an independent part of the HealthPartners

family of companies. HPRF joined the VSD project in March of 2001 and serves as

a pediatric-only site that focuses on all areas of vaccine safety in children.

HealthPartners is a mixed-model HMO with a large network of owned and contracted

clinics, medical and dental centers. The VSD population is drawn from the two

largest HealthPartners clinics serving more than 600,000 enrollees.

HealthPartners serves a diverse population of urban, suburban, and rural

residents, including low socioeconomic populations in the Minneapolis-St.

metropolitan area.

HPRF has a wealth of experience using administrative databases in

vaccine-related, pharmacoepidemiology, pharmacoeconomic, and other large link

database studies. HealthPartners' computerized information services system

provides a fully integrated structure that captures inpatient and outpatient

claims and encounters, electronic physician notes, and laboratory, pharmacy,

emergency room, and urgent care data that can be accessed by the HPRF VSD staff.

HPRF investigators also have access to electronic physician notes containing

information not present in any other administrative data system. HealthPartners

implemented an Epicare electronic medical record in the 2003 and has had an

immunization registry since 1997.

Areas of VSD Research Activity

HPRF's multi-specialty VSD team consists of bio-statisticians, pediatricians, an

economist, an epidemiologist, programmers, support staff and contracts with

well-known vaccine researchers. The HPRF VSD team initiates and participates in

several studies that focus on a wide range of vaccine safety topics. Some of our

recent studies include a study of rotavirus vaccine and intussusception, an

examination of the health consequences that result from exemption from

immunization, an assessment of the safety of Yellow Fever vaccine in children

and adults, and a feasibility study to enable real time surveillance using

automated data to rapidly detect vaccine adverse events.

For Further Information Please Contact:

J. Goodman, PhD

HealthPartners Research Foundation

8100 34th Avenue South, MS 23302G

Minneapolis, MN 55440-1524

Phone: 952-967-5039

Email: michael.j.goodman@...