Research and Projects: AHRQ THQIT and SRD Portfolio:
California
Total Years of Funding: 3
Total Funding: $6.2 million
Accessing the Cutting Edge - Implementing Technology to Transform Quality in SE Kern
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Description: Develops a regional collaborative and business plan for implementing health IT in a rural region; also conducts a telemedicine demonstration project to assess the barriers and issues of broad health IT intervention including telemedicine/teleradiology, scan/store medical record, chronic disease registry and personal health record, and linking the region's partners.
Year 1 Funding: $492,043
Estimated Total Funding: $1,484,361
Principal Investigator: Kiki Nocella
Applicant Institution: Tehachapi Hospital
City/Town: Tehachapi, California
Grant Number: UC1 HS016146-01
Category: Implementation Grants (THQIT)
Crossing the Quality Chasm in Eastern Rural County
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Description: Develops a regional collaborative and business plan for implementing health IT in a rural region; also conducts a telemedicine demonstration project to assess the barriers and issues of broad health IT intervention including telemedicine/teleradiology, scan/store medical record, chronic disease registry and personal health record, and linking the region's partners.
Year 1 Funding: $199,145
Estimated Total Funding: $199,145
Principal Investigator: Kiki Nocella
Applicant Institution: Tehachapi Hospital
City/Town: Tehachapi, California
Grant Number: P20 HS15342
Category: Planning Grants (THQIT)
El Dorado County Safety Net Technology Project
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Description: Develops a comprehensive plan for health IT implementation and integration by assessing specific clinical and organizational needs, feasibility of health IT implementation, defining project parameters, developing the implementation plan, and specifying procedures for ongoing evaluation and feedback.
Year 1 Funding: $185, 972
Estimated Total Funding: $185,972
Principal Investigator: Neda West
Applicant Institution: Marshall Medical
City/Town: Placerville, California
Grant Number: P20 HS14908 (9/30/2004-9/29/2005)
Category: Planning Grants (THQIT)
El Dorado County Safety Net Technology Project/Access El Dorado County (ACCEL)
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Description: Develop a comprehensive plan for health IT implementation and integration by assessing specific clinical and organizational needs, feasibility of health IT implementation, defining project parameters, developing the implementation plan, and specifying procedures for ongoing evaluation and feedback.
Year 1 Funding: $497,395
Estimated Total Funding: $1,491,985
Principal Investigator: Greg Bergner
Applicant Institution: Marshall Medical
City/Town: Placerville, California
Grant Number: UC1 HS016129-01
Category: Implementation Grants (THQIT)
Impact of Health Information Technology on Clinical Care
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Description: Evaluates the effects of staggered installation of an Epic health IT system that includes an EMR with provider order entry and clinical decision support in primary care settings on quality, safety, and resource use within a large integrated delivery system on cohort of 780,000 members with chronic illnesses.
Year 1 Funding: $499,970
Estimated Total Funding: $1,487,606
Principal Investigator: John Hsu
Applicant Institution: Kaiser Foundation Research
City/Town: Oakland, California
Grant Number: R01 HS15280
Category: Value Grants (THQIT)
IT Systems for Rural Indian Clinic Health Care
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Description: Integrates health services research, clinic redesign, and electronic practice management through the implementation of electronic health records and clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) by partnering with three rural Tribal Health Programs to implement electronic health records with clinical decision support systems.
Year 1 Funding: $500,000
Estimated Total Funding: $1.5 million
Principal Investigator: Susan Dahl
Applicant Institution: California Rural Indian Health Board
City/Town: Sacramento, California
Grant Number: UC1 HS15339
Category: Implementation Grants (THQIT)
Santa Cruz County Diabetes Mellitus Registry
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Description: Expands an established Web-based, interactive Diabetes Mellitus Registry that provides patient histories and needed tests at the point of care among public, private, and not-for-profit health care providers; also tracks the diabetes population to identify trends in key indicators of care.
Year 1 Funding: $496,875
Estimated Total Funding: $1,352,725
Principal Investigator: F. Wells Shoemaker
Applicant Institution: Pajaro Valley Community Health
City/Town: Watsonville, California
Grant Number: UC1 HS15362
Category: Implementation Grants (THQIT)
Tulare District Hospital Rural Health EMR Consortium
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Description: Builds on an existing infrastructure to construct a fully integrated EMR to give clinicians real-time access to patient data through pharmacy management, laboratory management, patient scheduling, barcoding, clinical physician order entry, electronic signature, insurance eligibility, and Pyxis medication-dispensing units at nursing stations.
Year 1 Funding: $500,000
Estimated Total Funding: $1.5 million
Principal Investigator: Paul Galloway
Applicant Institution: Healthcare Management Systems
City/Town: Tulare, California
Grant Number: UC1 HS15096
Category: Implementation Grants (THQIT)