Newswise — RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — RTI International, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, recently launched an online resource for public health professionals to share results and lessons learned from quality improvement initiatives, www.phqix.org.
The Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange is a free, publicly available communication platform dedicated to enhancing the performance, effectiveness, and efficiency of public health systems by making public health quality improvement information easily accessible to public health practitioners.
The platform was designed in collaboration with state, local, and tribal health department representatives. It houses descriptions of the expanding number of public health quality improvement efforts in a standardized format so practitioners and others can find real-world examples relevant to their current and planned quality improvement work.
To encourage interaction and collaboration between public health professionals, the website includes a community forum for dialogue among the site’s users, the ability to comment on and pose questions about quality improvement initiatives, and an “Ask an Expert” feature where quality improvement experts weigh in on questions posed by site users.
“We expect this new online resource to be a dynamic destination for health departments and their partners to learn and share best practices for quality improvement,” said Pamela Russo, senior program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
“Throughout the design process, we were deeply engaged with the public health practice community,” said Jamie Pina, research scientist at RTI International and the director of the project. “The features of the site reflect the input of public health practitioners at every step.”
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