AHRQ-Funded Projects

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Health Information Exchange: A Frontier Model

Description: 

Establishes a Web-based electronic medical record system for 10 small rural hospitals to connect them to the area's regional medical center. The project's ultimate goal is to quickly give alImplements a regional health information exchange among an established collaborative of hospitals, clinics, and providers across Nebraska's remote 14,000-square-mile western panhandle; also helps participating providers acquire the equipment and other resources necessary to share laboratory and pharmaceutical data, as well as electronic medical records.

Principal Investigator: 
Nancy Shank
Project Dates: 
September 30, 2005 to September 29, 2009

HIT Plan for Region V Behavioral Health Care Providers

Description: 

Planned, developed, and implemented a methodology for behavioral health care providers to standardize core shared data elements; designed an integrated management information system for the sharing of health care data and information among rural and urban health care providers; connected rural providers to urban providers; and developed messaging capabilities between primary care and behavioral health care providers.

Principal Investigator: 
Wende Baker
Project Dates: 
September 30, 2004 to September 29, 2006

Regional Health Records for Frontier Communities

Description: 

Planned the implementation of a regional health record system within established networks of rural hospitals, clinics, public health providers, behavioral health providers, and others across a 14,000 square mile remote area.

Principal Investigator: 
Nancy Shank
Project Dates: 
September 30, 2004 to September 29, 2005