Individuals with Chronic Care Needs

Promoting Patient Safety with Web-based Patient Profiles

Description

The purpose of this project was to examine the feasibility of developing an electronic health information network to provide clinicians with patients' medical information during care transfers and found that, while feasible, there are significant barriers to information exchange.

Grant Number
P20 HS014885
Principal Investigator(s)

Crossing the Quality Chasm in Eastern Rural Kern County

Description

Developed a regional collaborative and business plan for implementing health IT in a rural region; also conducted 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.

Grant Number
P20 HS015342
Principal Investigator(s)