Telehealth Grantee Directory

Network Partners:

Not Applicable

Project Purpose:

To provide training services related to the implementation of the eProgesa COTS product for BioArch Program, that includes the replacement of the American Red Cross Biomedical Services blood manufacturing and services IT applications and the underlying operational technology platform, and the associated business process re-engineering that support the collection, processing, validation, and distribution of blood and blood components. The American Red Cross processes over 6 million blood donations through 11 Biomedical Services Divisions and 36 Regional areas across the United States and Puerto Rico, providing approximately 50 percent of the Nation's blood supply. In supplying nearly half the Nation's blood, the American Red Cross administers the largest blood collection and distribution network in the United States

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

The ePROGESA COTS product is a configurable "state of the art" software application that provides the requisite feature functionality to facilitate the blood banking process from donor recruitment, blood collection, manufacturing and testing through distribution of blood products. Students, referred to as "Super Users," responsible for configuring the eProgesa software application, will be trained in the complex configuration techniques, requirements and priorities. As part of the training, each student is tested following each major module of training and required to pass with 80 percent accuracy.

Service Area:

The "super users" will set up the ePROGESA COTS system to be used across the United States by Red Cross' 11 business divisions in support of the blood donation, testing, processing, and distribution to hospitals and clinics. Over 6 million blood donations annually are expected to be processed through this system.

Services Provided:

Services within the scope of this effort include blood collection (blood drives) including donor health histories and phlebotomy, testing, manufacturing and distribution to hospital and clinic consumers based on product orders. The BioArch program is scheduled for implementation beginning in late 2006.

Equipment:

Equipment includes ePROGESA application host computers located in Red Cross' NationalHeadquarters (NHQ) data center in Falls Church, VA, mobile laptops used on blood drives, and variousrequired peripheral devices, such as bar code scanners, scales, and blood product label printers.

Transmission:

The Regional blood banking staffs will access the ePROGESA application via the Red Cross "wide area network" (WAN) to the host computers in the Red Cross NHQ data center. The Regions are connected to the NHQ via Frame Relay T1 circuits.

Network Partners:

The Center for Telehealth & E-Health Law (CTeL) will continue its long tradition of convening telehealth leaders from across the Nation to discuss key legal and regulatory issues facing the telehealth industry. NTRC will collaborate with the four regional telehealth resource centers.

Project Purpose:

The NTRC serves as the source for legal and regulatory information affecting the telehealth industry and provides technical assistance to current OAT and HRSA grantees and those that seek grant funding for telehealth programs. Critical legal and regulatory information will be available on the NTRC website at www.telehealthlawcenter.org.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

NTRC will create a user-friendly repository of information on legal and regulatory information affecting the telehealth industry.

Service Area:

The NTRC is a national resource center and provides information to current OAT and HRSA grantees and those that seek grant funding for telehealth programs.

Services Provided:

The NTRC provides information on legal and regulatory issues facing telehealth to current OAT and HRSA grantees and those that seek grant funding for telehealth programs.

Equipment:

N/A

Transmission:

N/A

Network Partners:

Stakeholders engaged in more than 200 State, regional, and community-based health information exchange projects across the Nation. Includes 10 community-based multi-stakeholder collaboratives funded by FeHI that are improving health and healthcare through health information exchange (HIE): CareSpark, TN; Colorado HIE, CO; IHIE/Regensrief Institute, IN; Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MA-SHARE), MA; MD/DC Collaborative for HIT, MD; National Institute for Medical Informatics, WI; Santa Barbara County Care Data Exchange, CA; Taconic Educational Research Fund, NY; St. Joseph's Hospital Foundation, WA; and HealthBridge, CT.

Project Purpose:

To improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare by supporting the mobilization of information across disparate systems through health information exchange. The Program provides seed funding and technical assistance to state, regional, and community-based collaborative initiatives that are improving health and healthcare through health information exchange and develops and disseminates tools and resources to support healthcare stakeholders who are navigating the clinical, financial, legal, organizational, and technical aspects of health information exchange.

Outcomes Expected/Project Accomplishments:

• Increase in the number of sustainable health information exchange initiatives across the Nation that are enabling the mobilization of information to support better health and healthcare.
• Increase in the number of the providers, purchasers, and payers that recognize the value of health information exchange and are actively engaged in such efforts at the state, regional, and local levels.
• Increase in the number of principles and tools available to health information exchange initiatives to support their navigation of clinical, financial, organizational, and technical aspects of HIE.
• Evaluation measurement tools: eHI Annual Surveys; resources and tools generated by grantees and other stakeholders; accomplishments of CCBH funded collaboratives; Stakeholder interviews.

Service Area:

The program supports stakeholders in every state in the U.S.

Services Provided:

Seed funding to communities who are improving healthcare through HIE; development of common principles and tools for: getting started, organization and governance, value creation and financing, practice transformation and quality, health information sharing policies, and technical aspects; dissemination information through learning forums, an online Resource Center, and direct technical assistance.

Equipment:

A broad range of equipment for health information exchange: hardware, software, and other equipment.

Transmission:

A broad range of transmission methods including store and forward, Internet protocols, the Internet/World Wide Web, wireless technology, and broadband transmission.