Success Stories by Topic: Technology

• Lakelands Rural Health Network Technology Project- South Carolina
  October 2009
  A major weakness in the Lakelands Rural Health Network (LRHN) health care system was access to technology. Its rural network partners needed a system to collect, manage, and utilize consistent patient data efficiently and effectively.
• Outreach Rural Health for Rural Maine
  May 2009
  This project was designed to expand home care services for patients with anxiety and depression in the easternmost counties of the United States—Aroostook County and Washington County.
• Protecting the Golden Hour
  May 2009
  The main purpose of the Protecting the Golden Hour project was to develop and implement an adaptable, ongoing system of training, coordination, and accountability among 18 rural emergency medical service (EMS) units in Region 2.
• Lakelands Rural Health Network- HIT
  June 2008
  This project will operate an Internet-based, authenticated, peer-to-peer computer system and search engine for patient health, demographic, and related information.
• Internet Access in Iowa Rural Hospitals
  June 2008
  Funding from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will enable participating hospitals to install a fiber optic connection to increase their capacity to send medical records, increase the speed with which the records are transmitted, and decrease the amount of time for a patient to receive treatment.
• St. Joseph Health System Sonoma County
  December 2007
  The goal of the personal health record pilot project is to improve health outcomes of migrant and seasonal workers, agricultural worker families, and mobile population groups.
• Rural Community Health in Connecticut: Challenges and Opportunities
  August 2007
  The goals of this Connecticut Office of Rural Health project were to capture a picture of current health care issues impacting rural Connecticut, gain a better understanding of the health status of rural residents and develop a supporting rural health data base.
• 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.
• Rural Chronically Ill Women: Online Support Network (aka "Women to Women")
  April 2007
  The Women to Women Project (WTW) aims to help isolated rural women with chronic illnesses adapt more successfully to living with their conditions in the face of limited access to health information and services.
• 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.