Telehealth Grantee Directory

Network Partners:

Not Applicable.

Project Purpose:

Implement an electronic oncology patient management system to consolidate the patient's disease, treatment, and demographic/insurance information in one database to improve and streamline vital cancer care and research for the New Jersey community.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

Capacity to monitor patient response to treatment through successful Protocol specific data capture; improved quality standards of care for oncology patients through embedded continuous monitoring and measurement of key patient care processes; improved capacity to monitor patients undergoing clinical trials through integration of disparate information.

Service Area:

Bergen County, NJ and the entire metropolitan New York Area.

Services Provided:

In 1998 the information technology infrastructure began by automating the pharmacy, and rolling out electronic medical records. The Soarian Implementation has begun with Patient Accounts, and there are plans to add ICU, Oncology, Emergency/Trauma, Pediatrics, Cardiology, and Radiology.

Equipment:

Wireless workstations, handheld devices including pocket sized PCs and Lifebooks.

Transmission:

Data are available through the interconnectivity of the data/voice/video network infrastructure, clinical and financial systems, the HUMC intranet, the physician extranet (ISP), and a patient portal. Data links between Soarian Oncology module and current systems will be built HL7 interfaces.

Network Partners:

Not Applicable.

Project Purpose:

The Medical Technology Center for Infants and Children is a multi-disciplinary entity, which will conduct basic and clinical research in pediatric biomedical engineering and technology. By partnering with Drexel University, and NJIT, as well as collaborating with other academic and corporate sources, the Center will allow for the successful and expedient integration of pediatric medicine and engineering. Technology developed by the Center will ultimately be of international benefit in both the pediatric and adult medical fields. Initial foci for research will include: Blue Light Emitting Diode Phototherapy, and the Heart Rate Variability Analysis.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

Outcomes Expected: 1) A Blue Light Emitting Diode Phototherapy system will be developed for the treatment of Neonatal Jaundice. 2) Heart Rate Variability Analysis will be studied as a predictor of neonatal sepsis, and as a tool to help predict neonatal outcomes. Antibiotic exposure and development of resistant organisms is a major problem in all intensive care units. For neonatal intensive care units an additional problem is the non-specific nature of signs and symptoms of infection and high morbidity and mortality for established infection. Therefore a lot of babies get worked up for nosocomial infection and get treated with antibiotics while waiting for culture results. Our aim is to incorporate Heart Rate Variability Analysis into the clinical decision making process of initiating antibiotics for suspected sepsis before culture results are available. We expect that antibiotic use will decrease with this strategy, thereby, reducing the development of resistant organisms.

Service Area:

Not Applicable.

Services Provided:

Not Applicable.

Equipment:

• A Blue Light Emitting Diode Phototherapy System
• Hero Heart Rate Variability Analysis System

Transmission:

Not Applicable.