Bruce, this is an awesome project you are working on. I have long
wanted to do the same thing for Mental health in Houston but have
little experience in grant-getting. Can I call you and discuss? Please
send your phone number.
-- IV
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:34:01 -0600
"Bruce Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To the List:
We have a grant to study the feasibility of connecting a state-wide
group of hospitals, clinics, private offices and labs. The grant is a
planning grant (<200K US) for an implementation grant (<2M US) to
make the system happen. The goals of the system would be:
A patient from any entity would be recognized at any of the other
entities and identified from others of similar name, age and
demographic characteristics.
A provider could request, with proper authentication and permission
from the patient, any information at a linked facility for electronic
delivery to the providers facility.
A provider could order tests, imaging and consults to be done at any
linked entity for their patient.
Constraints:
The entities have completely unrelated commercial vendors (none open
source) and some have no electronic infrastructure.
The entities have local customization expertise across the spectrum
from none to a team of experts.
Bandwidth is variable from fiber to dial-up.
I searched back over the last year or so in the list and picked out
some posts referring to MPI and like subjects.
So, the opportunity are a couple at least:
An open source patient identifier functionality
An open source record exchange system
An open source EHR to be distributed to facilities currently without
such.
We are currently surveying the participating facilities (less than a
100) for their level of automation and data availability.
We have a consultant named Neal Neuberger of Health Tech Strategies,
LLC. who organizes the monthly meetings which have just started.
Appreciate any thoughts about next steps, reference documents,
implementation consultants.
Thanks
Bruce Slater, MD, MPH
Medical Director Computerized Decision Support
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics
