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Automated Adverse Drug Event Detection and Intervention

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Description:Established an automated surveillance system for detecting, reporting, and intervening as well as measuring the incidence and nature of adverse drug events suffered by patients.
Principal Investigator:Ferranti, Jeffery
State:North Carolina
Community:Non-rural
Care Setting:Inpatient, Pharmacy
Technologies:Clinical Decision Support (CDS), Electronic Health Record (EHR)
Project Status:Closed

Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange / North Carolina
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:Anderson, W. Holt
State:North Carolina
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Project Status:Closed

Showing Health Information Value in a Community Network

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Description:Assessed the costs and benefits of health IT in an established community-wide network of academic, private and public healthcare facilities created to share clinical information for the purpose of population-based care management of Medicaid beneficiaries.
Principal Investigator:Lobach, David
State:North Carolina
Community:Non-rural
Care Setting:Ambulatory, Emergency Department
Technologies:Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Project Status:Closed

Improving Care Transitions for Complex Patients through Decision Support

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Description:Develops and evaluates a decision support system that will augment the availability of information at ambulatory practices following three types of care transitions; hospital discharges, emergency department encounters, and specialty clinic evaluations.
Principal Investigator:Lobach, David
State:North Carolina
Community:Rural, Non-rural
Care Setting:Ambulatory
Technologies:Health Information Exchange (HIE), Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
Project Status:Ongoing

Improving Quality through Decision Support for Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy

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Description:

This three-year project seeks to improve care quality and safety in an ambulatory care setting through clinical decision support for evidence-based pharmacotherapy delivered as point-of-care reports to clinic- based practitioners and as population health-based alerts to care managers.

Principal Investigator:Lobach, David
State:North Carolina
Community:Non-rural
Care Setting:Ambulatory
Technologies:Health Information Exchange (HIE), Clinical Decision Support (CDS)
Project Status:Ongoing
 
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