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Project ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes

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Description:Connected urban medical center disease experts with rural general practitioners and community health representatives over a telehealth network to effectively treat patients with chronic, common and complex diseases who do not have direct access to specialty health care providers.
Principal Investigator:Arora, Sanjeev
State:New Mexico
Community:Rural
Care Setting:Prison
Technologies:Devices, Telehealth, Infrastructure
Project Status:Closed

New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC)

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Description:Developed a community-wide HIE collaborative in a rural area that gave patients and providers access to comprehensive clinical data on the Internet; developed disease-management prototypes on diabetes, pediatric asthma, depression, and low back pain and evaluated the development, implementation, and outcomes of the collaborative.
Principal Investigator:Gunter, Maggie
State:New Mexico
Community:Rural
Care Setting:Ambulatory, Inpatient, Community Health Center, Laboratory
Technologies:Health Information Exchange (HIE), Infrastructure
Project Status:Closed

Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange / New Mexico
Description:Thirty-three states and 1 territory formed the HISPC, which aims to address the privacy and security challenges presented by electronic health information exchange through multi-state collaboration. With the support of its state or territorial governor, each team engaged a steering committee and a range of local stakeholders to 1) assess variations in organization-level business policies and state laws that affect health information exchange; 2) identify and propose practical solutions, while preserving the privacy and security requirements in applicable Federal and State laws and 3) develop detailed plans to implement solutions.
Principal Investigator:Blair, Jeff
State:New Mexico
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Project Status:Closed
 
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