National DIG Meeting Reports

2009 National Data Infrastructure Grant (DIG) Meeting Reports

The 2009 National Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant Meeting was held April 16th and 17th at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, D.C. This year we continued the tradition of the poster session to provide states the opportunity to showcase their work on the URS, NOMS, or PHQ-8 data. A team of judges reviewed all of the poster presentations and recognized the outstanding efforts of the top three states. The winners of the 2009 session are:

• First Place: Oklahoma, presented by Mark Reynolds and Tracy Leeper - Use of Effective Methods to Present Data to Stakeholders
• Second Place: Vermont, presented by John Pandiani - Using Brief Reports to Share Frequent Measurement of URS/NOMs Indicators
• Third Place: Oklahoma, presented by Phyllis Abbott, Shailendra Kumar, and Mark Reynolds - Getting the Biggest Bang out of State Treatment Dollars

2008 National Data Infrastructure Grant (DIG) Meeting Reports

The 2008 National Mental Health Data Infrastructure Grant Meeting was held February 13th and 14th at the Westin Arlington Gateway in Arlington, Virginia. This year a poster session was added to the agenda to provide states the opportunity to showcase their work on the URS, NOMS, or PHQ-8 data. A team of judges reviewed all of the poster presentations and recognized the outstanding efforts of the top three states. The winners of the 2008 session are:

• First Place: North Carolina, presented by Tom Palombo and Becky Ebron: Data Informed Decision Making in North Carolina
• Second Place: Hawaii, presented by Philippe Gross and Florentina Salvail: Depression and Anxiety Among Adults in Hawai'i: A Focus on Gender and Ethnicity
• Third Place: Massachusetts, presented by Beth Lucas and Connie Maranto: Collaborating for Improvement: The Massachusetts Readmission Learning Collaborative