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A Rural Health Information Technology Cooperative to Promote Clinical Improvement
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| Description:Demonstrated the value of health IT in improving quality of inpatient care for community-acquired pneumonia and emergency care of acute myocardial infarctions in rural hospitals. |
| Principal Investigator:Huck, Jacqueline |
| State:Washington |
| Community:Rural |
| Care Setting:Inpatient, Emergency Department |
| Technologies:Electronic Health Record (EHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE) |
| Project Status:Closed |
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Patient-Provider Electronic Messenger in Chronic Illness
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| Description: Analyzed a patient secure messaging application for patients with depression, congestive heart failure, and diabetes, and evaluated potential for safer and more effective medical care. |
| Principal Investigator:Ralston, James D. |
| State:Washington |
| Community:Non-rural |
| Care Setting:Ambulatory |
| Technologies:Infrastructure, Personal Health Records (PHR), Health Information Exchange (HIE) |
| Project Status:Closed |
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Privacy and Security Solutions for Interoperable Health Information Exchange / Washington
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| 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:Evans, Peggy |
| State:Washington |
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| Project Status:Closed |
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Evaluating the Impact of an ACPOE/CDS System on Outcomes
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| Description: Implemented an ambulatory computer physician order entry (ACPOE) system with clinical decision support capabilities in an ambulatory, community-based, integrated health-system; evaluated the impact of the system both internally, on organizational processes and human factors, and externally, on patient safety as measured by medication errors and adverse drug events. |
| Principal Investigator:Sullivan, Sean |
| State:Washington |
| Community:Non-rural |
| Care Setting:Ambulatory |
| Technologies:ePrescribing (eRx), Clinical Decision Support (CDS) |
| Project Status:Closed |
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