|
Researchers Help Rural Hospitals Get Health IT Boost
|
When it comes to using information technology (IT) in hospitals, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. This is especially true for rural hospitals, which often lag behind their urban counterparts in adopting health IT.
Principal Investigator: Marcia Ward
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Connects Hospital, Clinics Through EMRs
|
The Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in East Central Illinois has implemented an ambulatory electronic medical record software application that provides shared access to computerized patient health information across hospital services, home health organizations, hospice, and physician practices. It's all part of an effort to provide better patient care and improve the way the health care system shares critical information.
Principal Investigator: Michael DeLuca
|
|
|
|
|
|
Health Information Exchange Links Records For Better Health
|
The MidSouth eHealth Alliance aims to improve patient care and reduce costs through eliminating duplicate or unneeded tests, reducing hospital stays, and decreasing ED utilization through health information exchange.
Principal Investigator: Mark Frisse, MD
|
|
|
AHRQ-Supported Electronic Record System Focuses on Best Practices for Vision Rehabilitation
|
When it comes to providing rehabilitation care for the visually impaired, data describing quality or outcomes of treatment are few and far between. But a unique computerized record system developed and implemented by New York-based Lighthouse International with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) aims to change that.
Principal Investigator: Cynthia Stuen, PhD
|
|
|
|
|
A Clearer Picture: Sharing PACS Helps Improve Care in Maine
|
A shared Picture Archiving and Communications System in Maine that allows hospitals to store and transmit a patient's imaging records in real-time may form the basis of electronic sharing of other medical information across the state.
Principal Investigator: Robert Coleman
|
|
|
|
|
|
AHRQ-Supported Telewound Care Networks Aims To Speed the Healing Process
|
An AHRQ-supported project is helping patients in rural Oklahoma get faster and more efficient treatment for chronic wounds through a web-based telecare network that links nursing home aides, home health workers, and other providers to wound care and other specialists.
Principal Investigator: Charles Bryant
|
|
|
HANDS Care Plan Tool Seeks to Improve Nurse Communication at Handoff in AHRQ-Funded Study
|
An AHRQ-supported project is testing whether a standardized,
computerized tool can help nurses document patient care better and
communicate more effectively at handoff. So far, the new tool -- called
HANDS -- has proved extremely useful for documenting care. The next
step: using HANDS to guide communication at handoff.
Principal Investigator: Gail Keenan, Ph.D., R.N.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Michigan Electronic Medical Records Project Provides Lessons Learned for Data Exchange
|
Ten critical access hospitals in Michigan's Upper Peninsula are working together to create a regional health information network that will allow for the communication of patient data with physicians. The network is designed to solve a major barrier to improving the quality care in a place where access to advanced health care services can be difficult.
Principal Investigator: Donald Wheeler, FACHE
|
|
|
|
|
AHRQ-Funded Study Explores the Value of Health Information to Communities
|
What's the value of health information to a community? Potentially, a great deal, in terms of both quality and cost. The trick, though, is not to share too much information too fast. That's just one of several lessons learned from this AHRQ-funded project.
Principal Investigator: David F. Lobach, M.D., Ph.D.
|
|
|
AHRQ Project Seeks To Cure What Ails Electronic Health Records
|
A new project is examining whether information technology tools that provide both clinical-decision support and population-based performance feedback will increase the value of electronic health records to clinicians while improving patient safety and quality.
Principal Investigator: Blackford Middleton, M.D., M.P.H., M.Sc.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Making Medication Safe for Elderly People in Long-Term Care
|
Researchers from Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital, a facility of Samaritan Health Services, and Oregon Health & Science University are leading the AHRQ project, which focuses on ways to use information technology (IT) to improve medication safety for the chronically ill elderly.
Principal Investigator: Paul Gorman and Karl Ordelheide
|
|
|
Long-Term Care Facilities Embrace Health Information Technology
|
Eleven nursing homes participating in a project supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to integrate new information technologies into everyday care have seen rates of pressure sore incidence among their residents drop by 33 percent.
Principal Investigator: Susan D. Horn, Ph.D.
|
|
|
|
|
The Rural Hospital Collaborative for Excellence Using IT
|
This project brings multiple stakeholders together to standardize electronic reporting of data in rural Texas hospitals to improve quality of care. The impact of training will be evaluated, and the project plans to create tools for rural hospitals in other parts of the nation.
Principal Investigator: Josie R. Williams, M.D., M.M.M.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Print
Orion Health's technology allowed the Mt. Ascutney Healthcare Consortium to improve the way they collect, store and transfer patient information. The Consortium hopes the system will help keep costs low while maintaining the highest standard of care.
This AHRQ project is developing a master visit registry - a form of health information exchange - to improve the coordination of care between hospitals and community health centers for Hawaii's vulnerable populations.
An AHRQ-supported project is transforming population and disease management for safety net providers using electronic health record and clinical decision support systems.
For Native Americans in California, getting medical treatment at a nearby clinic or hospital can be difficult. But a new project to use electronic health records could help bridge the distance and provide better care for patients.
Discover how a community-based, physician-owned integrated health system is using electronic prescribing to improve patient safety and ambulatory provider workflow.
In East Cleveland, a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is helping one of America's oldest hospitals use some of the newest health information technology (IT) available to improve everyday patient care.
One AHRQ-funded project has learned that IT can be used to involve patients, and their families, in the care delivery process through better communication and collaboration.
Learn how an AHRQ-funded project in Rochester, N.Y., is using telemedicine to connect child care centers and elementary schools to physician offices.
Learn how an AHRQ-sponsored project is supporting rural physicians' co-management of patients with chronic diseases in New Mexico using telehealth.
This project expands the reporting of medical errors and near misses, monitors safety event reporting, and develops a learning network among small, rural hospitals and their associated ambulatory care facilities, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies.
Discover how a diverse partnership of healthcare organizations is attempting to stem chronic disease in the community using a health IT grant from AHRQ.
Learn about how one AHRQ grant has redesigned an inpatient facility around patient safety goals and how health IT played a critical role in making the new design a reality.
This study compares remote telemonitoring with standard care for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The analysis focuses on clinical outcomes (quality) and cost (efficiency).
Learn how an IPA is using its AHRQ grant to connect additional small practitioners to its health information exchange network and study the impact of this network on quality of care and patient safety.
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 Telephone: (301) 427-1364