Improving Health Care through HIT in Morgan County, IN

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Project Details -
Completed

Grant Number

UC1 HS015258
Funding Mechanism(s)

Transforming Healthcare Quality Through Information Technology (THQIT) - Implementation Grants
AHRQ Funded Amount

$1,489,942
Principal Investigator(s)

Aders, Deborah
Organization

Morgan Hospital and Medical Center
Location

Martinsville

Indiana
Project Dates

09/30/2004 - 09/29/2007
Technology

Electronic Health Record/Electronic Medical Record

Health Information Exchange
Care Setting

Ambulatory Setting

Hospital
Population

Nurse

Office Staff

Physician

Rural Populations
Type of Care

Primary Care

Secondary Care
Health Care Theme

Clinical Workflow

Patient Safety

Quality Improvement

The purpose of this project was to evaluate a local health information technology initiative to improve quality of care delivered in Morgan County, IN, through longitudinal electronic patient information across multiple physician practices and Morgan Hospital and Medical Center (MHMC). MHMC provides primary and secondary health care for residents of Morgan County. Historically, 98 percent of patients who receive inpatient care from MHMC are Morgan County residents; yet 76 percent of the hospital care received by county residents occurs outside of the Morgan County, resulting in a fragmented patient record. Study design used a triangulated approach to evaluate impact of the health information technology initiative. Both qualitative and quantitative measures were obtained. Pre-and post-implementation measures were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance techniques. There results included significant gains in efficiency since MHMC's implementation of EMR and clinical messaging services, including the following: 1) 43 percent increase in average number of results and reports received per day (62 versus 89); 2) decrease in time to track missing results from 90 to 7.6 minutes per day; 3) decrease in time to copy results for other providers from 69.6 to 5.6 minutes; and 4) no apparent time savings in filing information in paper-based charts.

ICU nurses' acceptance of electronic health records.

Citation: Carayon P, Cartmill R, Blosky MA, et al. ICU nurses' acceptance of electronic health records. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2011; 18(6): 812-9.

Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21697291

Principal Investigator: Aders, Deborah

Project Name: Improving Health Care through HIT in Morgan County, IN

Document Type: Journal Publication

Research Method: Time Series

Technology: Clinical Decision Support System, Clinical Documentation, Computerized Provider Order Entry System, Device, Medication Management System, Health Information Exchange

Improving Health Care through Health Information Technology in Morgan County, Indiana - Final Report

Citation: Aders D. Improving Health Care through Health Information Technology in Morgan County, Indiana - Final Report. (Prepared by Morgan Hospital and Medical Center under Grant No. UC1 HS015258). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 2007.

Link: PDF (99.79 KB)

The findings and conclusions in this document are those of the author(s), who are responsible for its content, and do not necessarily represent the views of AHRQ. No statement in this report should be construed as an official position of AHRQ or of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Principal Investigator: Aders, Deborah

Project Name: Improving Health Care through HIT in Morgan County, IN

Document Type: Report

Technology: Clinical Decision Support System, Clinical Documentation, Computerized Provider Order Entry System, Device, Medication Management System, Health Information Exchange

Population: Rural Populations

Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE): Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio

Citation: Dixon BE, Zafar A. Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE): Findings from the AHRQ Portfolio (Prepared by the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT under Contract No. 290-04-0016). AHRQ Publication No. 09-0031-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. January 2009.

Link: Inpatient Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE): Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio

Technology: Computerized Provider Order Entry System

Using Barcode Medication Administration to Improve Quality and Safety: Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio

Citation: Hook J, Pearlstein J, Samarth A, Cusack C. Using Barcode Medication Administration to Improve Quality and Safety: Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio (Prepared by the AHRQ National Resource Center for Health IT under Contract No. 290-04-0016). AHRQ Publication No. 09-0023-EF. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. December 2008.

Link: Using Barcode Medication Administration to Improve Quality and Safety: Findings from the AHRQ Health IT Portfolio

Technology: Bar Coding

Improving Health Care through HIT in Morgan County, IN

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Project Details - Completed

Project Details -
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