Information infrastructure for consumer health: a health information exchange stakeholder study.

Background: An enabling infrastructure for population-wide health information capture and transfer is beginning to emerge in the U.S. However, the essential infrastructure component that is still missing is effective health information exchange (HIE).

Building a community network for a cancer education/screening program: the process and lessons learned (or relearned).

Similar to many communities around the United States in the late 1990s, Muncie, Indiana, and the surrounding county created a year 2000 committee, called, "You and Year 2000, Inc.: The Muncie and Delaware County Millennium Project" to sponsor, plan, and conduct activities to celebrate the new millennium and ponder the community's past, present, and path to the future. Part of the Committee's planning was to create a legacy of the year-long celebration that would attack a community problem.