Projects Funded by State (continued)
Ohio (Total funding: $3.0M)
CCHS-East Huron Hospital CPOE Project
Description: Creates an information management environment
that integrates patient care data, standardizes practice variation and use
of best practices, and supports the delivery of a seamless continuum of patient
care throughout the health system through CPOE.
Estimated total funding: $1.5M
Principal Investigator: Greg Kall
Applicant Institution: Meridia Health System, East Cleveland,
OH
Grant No.: UC1 HS15076
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-8/31/2007
Trial of Decision Support To Improve Diabetes Outcomes
Description: Evaluates the effects of a Web portal-based
patient empowerment program and EMR system on quality of care, patient safety,
and utilization for patients with diabetes and physicians in primary care
practices.
Estimated total funding: $1,495,569
Principal Investigator: Randall Cebul
Applicant Institution: Case Western Reserve University
Grant No.: R01 HS15123
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-8/31/2007
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Oklahoma (Total funding: $2.76M)
Health Improvement Collaboration in Cherokee County, OK
Description: Creates a plan for developing an integrated,
multifunctional, HIPAA-compliant Community Health Information Network; developing
a telephonic comprehensive nurse line service and triage function; and investigating
and implementing improvements for streamlining existing appointment systems.
Estimated total funding: $200,000
Principal Investigator: Mark Jones
Applicant Institution: Tahlequah City Hospital, Tahlequah,
OK
Grant No.: P20 HS15364
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
2005
Implementation of Health Improvement Collaboration in Cherokee County,
OK
Description: Implements a HIPAA-compliant electronic records
system to improve public health, patient safety and facilitate information
sharing among health care providers in the Talequah area, with the goals
of establishing a Web-based information and referral service and creating
a community-wide, science-based prevention strategy supported by the new
information system.
Estimated total funding: $1,499,200
Principal Investigator: Mark Jones
Applicant Institution: Tahlequah City Hospital, Tahlequah,
OK
Grant No.: UC1 HS016131
Estimated dates: 9/30/2005-9/29/2008
INTEGRIS Telewoundcare Network
Description: Demonstrates and evaluates the clinical effectiveness
and cost savings of utilizing telehealth technology to reduce the days to
healing for chronic wounds by improving access to caregivers, point of care
processes, and dissemination of best practice information.
Estimated total funding: $1,063,213
Principal Investigator: Charles Bryant
Applicant Institution: INTEGRIS Health, Inc., Oklahoma City,
OK
Grant No.: UC1 HS15359
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
Delivery of Preventive Services in Primary Care
Description: Disseminates strategies targeted toward increasing
immunizations and preventive care, including a computer reminder system to
practices in a Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN). Assesses, using a
randomized controlled trial methodology, the relative adoption success of
academic detailing combined with and without practice facilitation and technology
implementation assistance, on the delivery of preventive services.
Estimated total funding: $439,500
Principal Investigator: James Mold
Applicant Institution: University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center, Oklahoma City, OK
Grant No: R21 HS14850
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004 -9/29/2006
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Oregon (Total funding: $4.8M)
Improving the Quality of Healthcare in Central Oregon
Description: Develops an integrated health IT to improve
rural access to health care and identifies key issues to improve patient
safety and quality of care, including analyzing the cost-benefit of technical
solutions.
Estimated total funding: $199,897
Principal Investigator: Diane Audiss
Applicant Institution: St. Charles Medical Center, Bend,
OR
Grant No.: P20 HS14930
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Bay Area Community Informatics Project
Description: Plans the implementation of an HIE using a
secure fiber optic connection between community care providers to share patient
demographic, medical records, laboratory results, and radiographic images.
Estimated total funding: $174,190
Principal Investigator: Jeffery Givens
Applicant Institution: Bay Area Hospital, Coos Bay, OR
Grant No.: P20 HS14893
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Using IT To Improve Medication Safety for Rural Elders
Description: Implements a Patient-Centered Medication Information
System (PCMIS) to provide secure access to accurate, complete, and current
medication information for patients, clinicians, pharmacists, and nurses,
reconcile differences in medication information, and provide a platform for
evidence-based decision support; assesses the benefits and costs of the system.
Estimated total funding: $1,496,748
Principal Investigator: Paul Gorman
Applicant Institution: Samaritan North Lincoln Hospital,
Lincoln City, OR
Grant No.: UC1 HS14928
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
Medication Management: A Closed Computerized Loop
Description: Implements health IT specifically related to
medication administration and management and assesses the extent to which
these technologies contribute to measurable and sustainable improvements
in patient safety and quality of care.
Estimated total funding: $1,490,897
Principal Investigator: Mark Hetz
Applicant Institution: Three Rivers Community Hospital,
Grants Pass, OR
Grant No.: UC1 HS15231
Estimated dates: 9/10/2004-8/31/2007
Improving Safety and Quality with Integrated Technology
Description: Demonstrates the value of an integrated outpatient
and inpatient health information system by assessing adherence to evidence-based
treatment guidelines for women who are group B streptococcus positive including
inappropriate antibiotic use and screening in the outpatient setting, and
cost-benefit analysis.
Estimated total funding: $1,461,150
Principal Investigator: Jeanne-Marie Guise
Applicant Institution: Oregon Health and Sciences University,
Portland, OR
Grant No.: R01 HS15321
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-8/31/2007
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Pennsylvania (Total funding: $3.2M)
Regional Approach for THQIT in Rural Settings
Description: Conducts a formal clinical information and
technical needs assessment to identify the optimal technical model for information
sharing as well as actions required to overcome barriers; develops a project
plan that will promote implementation of cost-effective clinical information
services.
Estimated total funding: $200,000
Principal Investigator: James Walker
Applicant Institution: Geisinger Clinic, Danville, PA
Grant No.: P20 HS15457
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
2005
Regional Approach for THQIT in Rural Settings
Description: Launches a health records-sharing project,
led by Geisinger Health System, with Shamokin Area Community Hospital and
Sunbury Community Hospital to permit secure electronic access to patient
records.
Estimated total funding: $1,499,999
Principal Investigator: Francis Richards
Applicant Institution: Weis Center for Research-Geisinger
Clinic, Danville, PA
Grant No.: UC1 HS016162
Estimated dates: 9/30/2005-9/29/2008
Enhancing Patient Safety Through a Universal EMR System
Description: Implements an EMR system that allows 24-hour
data sharing across seven rural health care delivery sites for clinicians
to access current and complete patient information using either Personal
Digital Assistants or a Web portal.
Estimated total funding: $1.5M
Principal Investigator: Thomas Johnson
Applicant Institution: Dubois Regional Medical Center, DuBois,
PA
Grant No.: UC1 HS15083
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
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Rhode Island (Total funding: $5.0M)
State and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology
Description: Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates
a Master Patient Index to facilitate interoperability and sharing patient
data between public and private health care sectors.
Estimated total funding: $5.0M
Project Director: Patricia Nolan
Contracting Institution: State of Rhode Island, Providence,
RI
Contract No.: 290-04-0007
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2009
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Tennessee (Total funding: $7.92M)
State and Regional Demonstrations in Health Information Technology
Description: Plans, implements, and evaluates a state-based
regional data sharing and interoperatibility service interconnecting the
health care entities in three counties including needs assessment for health
care improvement and reforming TennCare.
Estimated total funding: $5.0M
Project Director: Mark E. Frisse
Contracting Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical
Center, Nashville, TN
Contract No.: 290-04-0006
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2009
Improving the Quality and Safety of Regional Surgical Patient Care
through the Creation of a Multi-institutional Partnership for the Implementation
and Support of Perioperative Informatics Tools
Description: Develops a detailed plan for the implementation
and support of informatics tools in regional health centers including the
creation of informatics tools to manage institutional surgical care information,
creation of a multi-institutional partnership to manage both the informatics
and surgical quality improvement programs, and the development of an economic
model related to the business and safety benefits.
Estimated total funding: $198,650
Principal Investigator: Michael Higgins
Applicant Institution: Vanderbilt University Medical Center,
Nashville, TN
Grant No.: P20 HS15401
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Improving Quality Care for Children with Special Needs
Description: Develops a database that includes diagnoses,
health records, and educational information on Children with Special Health
Care Needs with emphasis on children with genetic conditions and developmental
disabilities; makes this information available to physicians via a secure
Web-based system.
Estimated total funding: $200,000
Principal Investigator: Carmen Lozzio
Applicant Institution: University of Tennessee Health Sciences
Center, Memphis, TN
Grant No.: P20 HS15426
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
2005
Improving Quality Care for Children with Special Needs
Description: Expands upon an existing Web-based electronic
health record for children with special health care needs to improve coordination
of services and continuity of care; incorporates new populations (children
with genetic, behavioral, and mental health disorders); establishes links
with educational services and the State Medicaid program.
Estimated total funding: $1,096,491
Principal Investigator: Carmen Lozzio
Applicant Institution: University of Tennessee, Memphis,
TN
Grant No.: UC1 HS16133
Estimated dates: 9/30/2005-9/29/2008
Technology Exchange for Cancer Health Network (TECH-Net)
Description: Implements a systematic care program to improve
cancer management in rural communities by building upon an innovative approach
to total clinical decision support to provide access to oncology, hematology,
and other specialists through a dedicated telehealth network.
Estimated total funding: $1,429,265
Principal Investigator: Karen Fox
Applicant Institution: University of Tennessee Health Sciences
Center, Memphis, TN
Grant No.: UC1 HS15437
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
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Texas (Total funding: $2.98M)
Rural Hospital Collaborative for Excellence Using IT
Description: Implements advanced information technology
in rural and small community hospitals including Web-based business intelligence
tools, Internet connectivity, and standardized national measures of patient
safety and quality; also provides education intervention to support implementation
efforts and evaluate its effects on patient safety and quality.
Estimated total funding: $1,482,965
Principal Investigator: Patricia Dorris
Applicant Institution: Palo Pinto General Hospital, Mineral
Wells, TX
Grant No.: UC1 HS15431
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
Measuring the Value of Remote ICU Monitoring
Description: Examines the effect of tele-ICU monitoring
on mortality, complications, length of stay, cost-effectiveness, provider
attitudes, and human factors issues in ICUs and seven community hospitals.
Estimated total funding: $1,442,426
Principal Investigator: Eric Thomas
Applicant Institution: University of Texas-Houston, Houston,
TX
Grant No.: R01 HS15234
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
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Utah (Total funding: $8.0M)
Improving Communication Between Health Care Providers Via a Statewide
Infrastructure: UHIN Clinical
Description: Expands and enhances current State-wide network
for the electronic exchange of patient administrative and clinical data
and will support the adoption of EMRs.
Estimated total funding: $5.0M
Project Director: Jan Root
Contracting Institution: Utah Health Information Network,
Murray, UT
Contract No.: 290-04-0002
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2009
Nursing Home IT: Optimal Medication and Care Delivery
Description: Implements an health IT system with added best-practices
decision support modules in seven nursing homes and evaluates the impact on
care processes, resident health outcomes, and staff efficiency and satisfaction.
Estimated total funding: $1,486,452
Principal Investigator: Susan Horn
Applicant Institution: International Severity Information
Systems, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT
Grant No.: UC1 HS15350
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
Rural Trial of Clinic Order Entry with Decision Support
Description: Assesses the value of a computerized clinic
order entry tool in rural primary care practices for appropriateness of antimicrobial
therapy for acute respiratory infections, frequency of hemoglobin A1c in
diabetics, incidence of outpatient adverse drug events, and influenza vaccine
immunizations.
Estimated total funding: $1,499,650
Principal Investigator: Matthew Samore
Applicant Institution: University of Utah, Salt Lake City,
UT
Grant No.: R01 HS15413
Estimated dates: 9/20/2004-8/31/2007
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Vermont (Total funding: $2.39M)
Improving Rural Healthcare with Technology
Description: Utilizes existing health IT standards to integrate
the current stand-alone databases and information systems of a consortium
of three rural health care systems as the basis for creating a comprehensive
electronic health record for patient care.
Estimated total funding: $200,000
Principal Investigator: C. Frederick Lord
Applicant Institution: Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health
Center, Windsor, VT
Grant No.: P20 HS14896
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
2005
Improving Rural Health Care: Implementing Innovative Integration
Solutions
Description: Integrates existing health IT technology software
and systems among a three-hospital consortium to create a shared electronic
record that will ultimately give providers access to real-time data and the
ability to electronically prescribe medications. The goals of the project
are to reduce medical errors, improve the quality of patient care, increase
patient satisfaction, and lower costs.
Estimated total funding: $685,191
Principal Investigator: Thomas Sims
Applicant Institution: Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health
Center, Windsor, VT
Grant No.: UC1 HS016142
Estimated dates: 9/30/2005-9/29/2008
Improving Healthcare Quality via Information Technology
Description: Implements an integrated electronic patient
medical record, electronic medication administration record, computerized
physician order entry, and clinical decision support software that will be
accessible at all participating facilities which include an acute care hospital,
home health care agency, ambulatory clinics, a rehab facility, and the patient/resident
from home.
Estimated total funding: $1,486,304
Principal Investigator: Robert Pezzulich
Applicant Institution: Southwestern Vermont Health, Bennington,
VT
Grant No.: UC1 HS15270
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
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Virginia (Total funding: $2.2M)
Rural Virginia e-Health Collaborative
Description: Examines the automation of the continuity of
care record for use in patient referrals, hospital admission, and hospital
discharge; e-prescribing in physician practices, hospital discharge medications,
and long-term care facilities with links to community pharmacies; and disease
registries for managing preventive care interventions and chronic diseases.
Estimated total funding: $200,000
Principal Investigator: Michael Matthews
Applicant Institution: Rappahannock General Hospital,
Kilmarnock, VA
Grant No.: P20 HS15301
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Maximizing Effectiveness of E-Prescribing Between Physicians and
Community Pharmacists
Description: Evaluates how the e-prescribing standards work
in a variety of practice settings, geographic areas, and e-prescribing technologies.
In addition, assesses how prescriber and vendor characteristics influence
e-prescribing adoption and what best features of vendor software improve
medication-related safety outcomes. Physicians and pharmacies will be recruited
for participation in Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, Tennessee,
and potentially Rhode Island.
Estimated total funding: $1,998,370
Principal Investigator: Kate Lapane
Applicant Institution: SureScripts, Alexandria, VA
Grant No.: U18 HS016394
Estimated dates: 1/01/2006-12/31/2006
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Washington (Total funding: $2.5M)
Patient-Provider Electronic Messenger in Chronic Illness
Description: Analyzes a patient secure messaging application
for patients with depression, congestive heart failure, and diabetes and
evaluates potential for safer and more effective medical care.
Estimated total funding: $99,992
Principal Investigator: James D. Ralston
Applicant Institution: Group Health Cooperative of Puget
Sound
Grant No.: R03 HS14625
Estimated dates: 9/01/2004-8/31/2005
Evaluating the Impact of an ACPOE/CDS System on Outcomes
Description: Implements an ambulatory computer physician
order entry (ACPOE) system with clinical decision support capabilities in
an ambulatory, community-based, integrated health-system; evaluates the impact
of the system both internally, on organizational processes and human factors,
and externally, on patient safety as measured by medication errors and adverse
drug events.
Estimated total funding: $1,030,363
Principal Investigator: Sean Sullivan
Applicant Institution: University of Washington, Seattle,
WA
Grant No.: UC1 HS15319
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
A Rural HIT Cooperative To Promote Clinical Improvement
Description: Demonstrates the value of health IT in improving
quality of inpatient care for community-acquired pneumonia and emergency
care of acute myocardial infarctions in rural hospitals.
Estimated total funding: $1,498,916
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Floersheim
Applicant Institution: Rural Healthcare Quality Network,
Davenport, WA
Grant No.: R01 HS15188
Estimated dates: 9/17/2004-8/31/2007
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West Virginia (Total funding: $1.1M)
Boone County Community Care Network
Description: Designs a county-wide health information system
that will allow health information sharing and permit real-time order placement
by hospitals, health departments, private physicians' offices, clinics, and
long term care facilities.
Estimated total funding: $200,000
Principal Investigator: Robert Atkins
Applicant Institution: Boone Memorial Hospital, Madison,
WV
Grant No.: P20 HS15286
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Partnering To Improve Patient Safety in Rural WV
Description: Expands the reporting of medical errors and
near misses, monitors safety event reporting, and develops a learning network
among small, rural hospitals and their associated ambulatory care facilities,
long-term care facilities, and home health agencies.
Estimated total funding: $889,388
Principal Investigator: Gail Bellamy
Applicant Institution: West Virginia Medical Institute,
Charleston, WV
Grant No.: UC1 HS14920
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
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Wisconsin (Total funding: $3.3M)
Planning for a Rural Prescription Medication Network
Description: Develops a shared electronic repository for
patient-level prescription medication data that enables real-time access
for patients receiving health care services and plans a model system design
to electronically link prescription medication data across hospitals and
physician practices.
Estimated total funding: $167,781
Principal Investigator: Robert Gribble
Applicant Institution: St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield,
WI
Grant No.: P20 HS15327
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Developing Shared EHR Infrastructure in Wisconsin
Description: Plans the implementation of a common infrastructure
for an integrated EHR and CPOE to enhance access to clinical data, develops
a workable model/plan for standards-based data sharing to allow multiple
providers using disparate information systems to access patient information,
and creates a quality measurement and enhancement tool that would measure
improvements in quality and patient care.
Estimated total funding: $192,000
Principal Investigator: Tim Size
Applicant Institution: Reedsburg Area Medical Center, Reedsburg,
WI
Grant No.: P20 HS15295
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2005
Improving Patient Safety/Quality with HIT Implementation
Description: Implements an Epic health IT system and diffuses
the system community-wide; identifies the prevalence of medication errors,
near misses, and preventable adverse drug events; assesses costs and customer
satisfaction both before and after implementation.
Estimated total funding: $1.5M
Principal Investigator: John Reiling
Applicant Institution: St. Joseph's Community Hospital,
West Bend, WI
Grant No.: UC1 HS15284
Estimated dates: 9/30/2004-9/29/2007
CPOE Implementation in ICU's
Description: Assesses the implementation of CPOE systems
in six intensive care units (ICUs) and evaluates the value and outcomes of
patient safety involving medication errors; quality of care; end users' job
tasks, perceptions, and attitudes; and financial impact.
Estimated total funding: $1,455,066
Principal Investigator: Pascale Carayon
Applicant Institution: University of Wisconsin, Madison,
WI
Grant No.: R01 HS15274
Estimated dates: 9/01/2004-8/31/2007
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Acronyms
IT: information technology
HIT: health information technology
EMR: electronic medical record
EHR: electronic health record
HIE: health information exchange
CPOE: computerized physician/provider order entry
CDSS: clinical decision support system
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For More Information
For additional information on AHRQ projects on health information technology,
please visit http://www.healthit.ahrq.gov. or
contact the health IT staff at healthIT@ahrq.gov.
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AHRQ Publication No. 06-P009
Current as of February 2006
Internet Citation:
AHRQ Health Information Technology Programs—Update
2005-06. AHRQ Publication No. 06-P009, February 2006. Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/hitfact.htm