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Indian Health Service Resource and Patient Management System

The Resource and Patient Management System is an electronic information system designed to provide clinical and administrative information to Indian Health Service health care providers and program managers at the local, regional, and national levels.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program has a clear purpose to provide accurate, timely, and comprehensive information to Indian Health Service providers and program managers. The program enables providers to better and more efficiently manage care for American Indian and Alaska Native patients.
  • The program demonstrates progress in achieving the majority of its long-term performance goals. For example, the program is increasing the number of clinical indicators it measures and has successfully released an electronic health record graphical interface, which will provide health data in an easy to use system and is on schedule to be implemented in all Federally administered sites by 2008.
  • The program cannot provide a link between funding and performance. Funding for the system is not related to expected health outcomes.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Developing the program's capability to explain how system improvements will impact health outcomes.
  • Developing budget requests that are explicitly tied to accomplishment of annual and long-term performance goals.
  • Analyzing alternatives to provide a valid cost accounting link to health outcomes.

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