Success Stories by Topic: Health information technology

• Integrated Reporting Technology Speeds Clinical Information Retrieval for Rural Vermont Health Providers
  April 2009
  Orion Health's technology allowed the Mt. Ascutney Healthcare Consortium to improve the way they collect, store and transfer patient information.
• Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center Connects Hospital, Clinics Through EMRs
  April 2009
  The Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center in East Central Illinois has implemented an ambulatory electronic medical record software application that provides shared access to computerized patient health information across hospital services, home health organizations, hospice, and physician practices.
• IT Project Connects Rural Louisiana Hospitals
  November 2008
  Describes how Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX), an information technology project bringing together 24 rural hospitals and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), works to fill the gaps in patient record sharing among rural Louisiana hospitals.
• North Region Health Alliance
  July 2008
  North Region Health Alliance improved connectivity among the 24 health care providers by implementing a telecommunication infrastructure.
• SISU Medical Systems
  July 2008
  SISU Medical Systems provides information technology to provider based health care organizations. As a consortium of 16 Minnesota hospitals, SISU enables its members to collaborate on various technology-related projects, while benefitting from the cost-savings of group purchasing and licensing power.
• WNC Data Link Health Information Exchange
  March 2008
  The 16 independent hospitals serving western North Carolina wanted to develop a system to allow physicians and other authorized users to access patient electronic medical records across the region via the internet.
• Shared Information Technology (IT) Services
  August 2007
  The Community Health Network was formed to share information technology (IT) resources among varying sized community health organizations across Tennessee, from one doctor, one location, to much larger groups in multiple locations.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• Dakota Network of Community Health Centers
  May 2006
  This program has an Electronic Health Information Management Network with fully interactive video conferencing in place and it is being utilized to the benefit of the Dakota Network Collaborating Organizations and the patients served.
• Callam County Hospital District #1
  July 2005
  This network consisted of 11 sites representing community mental health centers, health care providers, and other health, education, and social services agencies that supported the delivery of behavior health and other health care services.
• Lincoln Primary Care Center Rural Outreach Grant Program
  July 2005
  The partners in this collaboration used grant funds to improve access to care and the coordination of services by creating a secure, online system for primary care providers to access hospitalization records, and by developing a secure, Internet-based system for health care providers to access medical literature.